philologist

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Her father, she recounted, had entered the United States in 1910 as an undocumented immigrant, studied at Harvard University and became a philologist and linguist.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022

Its chief editor, according to her LinkedIn page, is Ukraine-based philologist Ksenia Badziun, who says she graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 6, 2022

One of the central researchers in the early years of Antikythera research was German philologist Albert Rehm, the first person to understand the mechanism as a calculating machine.

From Scientific American • Dec. 14, 2021

Coined by philologist Walter William Skeat in 1886, ghost words are often the result of misreadings and typographical errors.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2021

He was a philologist, looking at how language evolves over time.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman