philologist

[ fi-lol-uh-jist ]

noun

a person who specializes in philology, the study of literary texts and written records: An interdisciplinary collaboration between philologists, chemists, and computer scientists is yielding new insights about these medieval manuscripts, all written in different languages or scripts, and most in poor condition.
(especially in older use) a person who specializes in linguistics, especially historical and comparative linguistics:The origin of modern historical linguistics is often traced back to Sir William Jones, the English philologist who, in 1782, observed the genetic relationship between Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin.

Origin of philologist

Language seems to be composite, but into its first elements the philologer has never been able to penetrate.
Cratylus | Plato
The science of the philologer, on the other hand, is strictly historical.
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists | James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone, John Henry Newman and Leslie Stephen
Devoted to France, the friend of M. Jusserand; a great romance philologer.
Ten Years Near the German Frontier | Maurice Francis Egan
Though France contributed little to the philologer, several books were now published in French.
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 | Henry Hallam
At this point, argues the philologer, he goes wrong and becomes the victim of delusions.
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2) | John Addington Symonds

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