Word: philologist
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...those years, Leopardi studied Latin, Greek, German, English, some Hebrew. When he emerged from the library at 17, he was a skilled philologist, a practiced poet, an authority on classical literature-and a ruined man. His eyes were so damaged that he could not bear the light of day; if he moved rapidly, "his head hammered and his pulses beat"; he was incapable of speaking to a stranger. Worst of all, a "double hump" had appeared between his shoulders-"a curvature of the spinal column...
Walz, a noted philologist and Goethe scholar, came to the University in 1905. He was the author of several books on the German language and contributed several articles to philological journals. In 1936 he published his famous "German Influence in American Education and Culture...
...hints as to their meaning, except for the tiny pictures (e.g., a horse's head, a chariot, a cup) that accompanied some of the text. Otherwise, the writing seemed to consist of about 88 "signs," each one apparently denoting a syllable. With the help of Cambridge Philologist John Chadwick, Ventris began experimenting. He counted the frequencies of various signs, tried to determine how often they might appear at the beginning, the middle, or the end of words. Then he began to investigate the various changes in word endings, found that they seemed to follow certain rules of grammar much...
...last few months, Horst Huett has made quite a business of answering odd questions: it is his way of scraping together enough money to put himself through a university. The well-read son of a refugee minister from Pomerania, he had always wanted to be a philologist, but his wages from the local pipemaking factory were far from enough. Then one night he heard a radio quiz program, found that he could answer all the questions...
...generation of Russians taught by Pravda that Stalin was the greatest agriculturalist, philologist, geneticist, political scientist and military commander was told last week, just as categorically: "No matter how experienced leaders are, no matter what knowledge and talents they possess, they cannot succeed in replacing the whole collective. The most important principle is that decisions should be based on the experience of many, should be the fruit of collective creation...