What's the difference between philologian and philologist?

Philologian


Definition:

  • (n.) A philologist.

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Philologist


Definition:

  • (n.) One versed in philology.

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  • (1) Jaramillo – a philosopher, philologist and diplomat – oozes courtesy and severity; he studied at both Oxford and Cambridge, he explains, “in order to get out and move on”.
  • (2) The interacademical project "Corpus Medicorum Graecorum", started in 1907 in Berlin, reflects the evolution of the classical philologists' approach to ancient medicine.
  • (3) Sudhoff's views of the tasks of medical historians in the field of the history of ancient medicine were influenced by the contemporary controversy between classical philologists and medical historians about their competence.
  • (4) I must mention too the supremely creative contribution of Giambattista Vico, the Neapolitan philosopher and philologist whose ideas anticipate those of German thinkers such as Herder and Wolf, later to be followed by Goethe, Humboldt, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Gadamer, and finally the great 20th-century Romance philologists Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer, and Ernst Robert Curtius.
  • (5) His headteacher had high hopes that he might become a philologist and Latin scholar.
  • (6) Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw were born in Warsaw, sons of Rajmund Kaczynski, an engineer and a member of the Polish resistance during the second world war, and his wife Jadwiga, a philologist.

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