Sentences with word «philologist»

A philologist is someone who studies languages, especially ancient ones, to understand their history, structure, and meaning. They are like detectives, unlocking the secrets of languages and discovering how they have evolved over time. Full definition
Her home is a Beacon Hill apartment, the doctor is a skater and Tenley Albright's husband, Tudor Gardiner, is a classical philologist who likes to wrestle
Thus in 1962, at the time of their marriage, Tudor, 43 to Tenley's 26, was a socially distinguished 43 - year - old wrestling brute of a classical philologist.
The exhibition, Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists» Visions, curated by the French philologist Donatien Grau, will be on display for the opening of the newly reinstalled Getty Villa.
For the opening of the newly reinstalled Getty Villa, the exhibition Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists» Visions, curated by the French philologist Donatien Grau, will be on display from April 18 to September 3.
It seems that only secular philologists are in a position to see the literary and artistic value of these prayer formularies, which are certainly among the oldest constituent elements of the liturgical heritage.»
Soon voices were heard which advocated the elimination of the superfluous «ballast» which the painstaking work of philologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, orientalists, and historians had accumulated, in favour of a simplified «credo,» spontaneously formulated or derived from tradition to the exclusion of everything else.
Ever since the work of the great philologist Erich Auerbach, scholars have recognized the note of realism that the Gospels introduced into ancient literature.
Then, in 1906, Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg found a book of prayers at a monastery in the city and noticed that it was a palimpsest — meaning that the parchment had been recycled by cutting up the pages of older books and scraping them clean.
Philologists assume that Semites migrated into Mesopotamia around the end of the fourth millennium B.C.E., intermingling with Sumerians and finally dominating Mesopotamian civilization.
Wilhelm H. I. Bleek, a German philologist, acquired custody of the men, who built huts at the bottom of his garden and worked as domestic servants.
The university was founded by philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1809 and became a model «modern university,» combining stellar research with broad education.
The main character, Dr. Remy Chaveau, is an upcoming philologist who obtains an old book from a client, an encrypted diary; during his attempts to decipher it one word sticks out like none other: Flamel.
6, 13, 20, 29 May, 3, 10 June Sundays at General Rehearsal Guided tours and workshops on developing screenplay - writing skills for 9 to 14 yearolds, led by the artist and philologist Ilmira Bolotyan.
In his 2012 treatise The Origins of the World's Mythologies, linguist and philologist Michael Witzel suggests a commonality between all the world's major myths.
I have a charming book, Surnames, by a British philologist, Ernest Weekley (think what you will), published originally in 1916, in which you can find hundreds of English names, with snatches of history and sometimes fanciful etymology attached.
Interesting work for historians and philologists for sure, and judges can dabble in it, but thats not their job — and they are unfit to make historical judgements like that.
Like Eliezer Shkolnik, the aging Talmudic scholar and philologist in Cedar «s 2011 film «Footnote,» Norman is persistent in his longing for prestige and recognition by his peers.
Turns out, you can learn a lot about running a business from Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher and philologist who turned Romantic thinking on its head.
There was a lively exchange with historians, philosophers, philologists and, naturally, between the two theological faculties.»
I am not a philosopher capable of taking in the whole, but a philologist concerned with particulars.
Elwin Ransom of Lewis's Space Trilogy, a philologist by profession, is forced to undertake a quest.
He later became a philologist, and the fantasy worlds he created were partly the result of working out the logic of the languages that he had invented.
The philologist Lorenzo Valla (d. 1457) was the inspirer of many who began to realise how important it was to assure themselves of the accuracy of the texts they were studying, and of the real meaning intended by their authors.
The following Saturday the philologist and the physician drove to Lawrence, Mass., for the NEAAAU Open Wrestling Meet.
Philologists, and others who study the roots of language, are not much taken with the idea of one early human...
Besides that, I'm a philologist and a translator by education, currently based in Poznań.
Agustina Garcia is a philologist and language teacher at the IES Lope de Vega in Madrid; she is now studying Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer of Ukrainian origin and a Jewish family, author of «The Passion According to G.H».
A philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, Akunin published his first detective stories in 1998 and... (more)
A philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, Akunin published his first detective stories in 1998 and has already become one of the most widely read authors in Russia.
The 15th Century Neoplatonic philosopher, philologist and physician Marsilio Ficino spoke of his epoch in terms of having to resolve the «difficult freedom» that characterizes a cosmology that centers on the human.
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