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Philology
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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In the widest sense of the word, the study of language; more specifically divided into:
- classical philology, the study of language as pertaining to literature and history
- comparative philology, the study of the laws and principles of a language, or a group of languages, and the subsequent comparison of one language with another; this is also known as linguistics
- glossonomy, the study of language as the word or as speech, with the purpose of determining its elements and laws
Among important contributors to philology are:
CATHOLICS
- Acidalius, Valens
- Aimerich, Mateo
- Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
- Bickell, Gustav
- Bore, Eugene
- Brayas, Jacques
- Bude, Guillaume
- Buglio, Louis
- Burgoa, Francisco
- Buston, Thomas Stephen
- Chrysoloras, Manuel
- Du Gange, Charles Dufresne
- Facciolati, Jacopo
- Hanxleden, Johann Ernst
- Holstenius, Lucas
- Jouvancy, Joseph de
- Kehrein, Joseph
- Lipsius, Justus
- Littré, Paul Maximilien Emile
- Mai, Angelo
- Mezzofanti, Giuseppe
- Neve, Felix Jean Baptiste Joseph
- O'Curry, Eugene
- O'Donovan, John
- Pagnino, Bantes
- Politian
- Quintano, Augustin
- Renaudot, Eusebius
- Reuohlin, Johann
- Rodriguez, João
- Romero, Juan
- Roth, Heinrich
- Sancto Bartholomeo, Paulinus a
- Sitjar, Buenaventura
- Turnebus, Adrian
- Willems, Pierre
- Zeuss, Johann Kaspar
OTHER CHRISTIAN PHILOLOGISTS
- Casaubon, lsaac
- Müller, Max
- Scaliger, Joseph Justus
- Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
- Skeat, Walter William
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Entry for 'Philology'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/p/philology.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Philology'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/p/philology.html. 1910.
