Gifted with a precocious intellect, Georg early threw himself into the pursuit of the " new learning ", with such effect that at the age of 20, he was appointed Rector extraordinarius of Greek at the so-called Great School of Zwickau, and made his appearance as a writer on philology.

Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin.

The term philology is derived from the Greek ( philologia ), from the terms ( philos ), meaning " love, affection, loved, beloved, dear, friend " and ( logos ), meaning " word, articulation, reason ", describing a love of learning, of literature as well as of argument and reasoning, reflecting the range of activities included under the notion of.

By 1520 Greek philology was introduced by Constanzo Claretti and Wenzel von Hirschberg ; Hebrew was also taught.

Rabelais was first a novice of the Franciscan order, and later a friar at Fontenay-le-Comte, where he studied Greek and Latin, as well as science, philology, and law, already becoming known and respected by the humanists of his era, including Guillaume Budé.

Hesychius is important, not only for Greek philology, but also for studying lost languages and obscure dialects ( such as Thracian and the ancient Macedonian language ) and in reconstructing Proto-Indo-European.

Welcker was a pioneer in the field of archaeology, and was one of the first to insist, like Böckh and his pupil Karl Otfried Müller, on the necessity of co-ordinating the study of Greek art and religion with philology, in opposition to the methods of the older Hellenists, like Gottfried Hermann, which they perceived as too narrow.

libros Pandectarum ( 1508 ), which, by the application of philology and history, had a great influence on the study of Roman law, and of Commentarii linguae Graecae ( 1529 ), an extensive collection of lexicographical notes, which contributed greatly to the study of Greek literature in France.

He studied talmudic philology and Greek language and literature at the Hebrew University, where he was appointed lecturer in Talmud in 1931.

Hermann maintained that an accurate knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages was the only road to a clear understanding of the intellectual life of the ancient world, and the chief, if not the only, aim of philology.

The New Cratylus ( 1839 ), the book on which his fame mainly rests, was an attempt to apply to the Greek language the principles of comparative philology.

: Herr N. ... is also a professor of classical philology ; he treats a series of very important questions of Greek literary history.

Kircher claimed that his sources for Oedipus Aegyptiacus were Chaldean astrology, Hebrew kabbalah, Greek myth, Pythagorean mathematics, Arabian alchemy and Latin philology.

In 1845 he was appointed professor of ancient Greek philology in Königsberg University, which post he held till his death.

Károly ( Carl, Karl ) Kerényi ( January 19, 1897 – April 14, 1973 ) was a Hungarian scholar in classical philology, one of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology.

Jaeger's last lecture, Early Christianity and Greek Paideia ( 1961 ) is a very impressive summary of his life's work covering Greek philology, philosophy and theology from Homer, the Presocratic philosophers, Plato to the Church Fathers, roughly a thousand years.

One of the contributions of classical philology to the Kultur-movement in Wilhelmine and post-Wilhelmine Germany was the use of banausisch as an insult — along with the myths that the German Soul is essentially Greek, that the ancient Greeks were blond, and that the modern Greeks are not descended from them.

Its main mission is the advance of science and the promotion of Greek education and philology.

This mission is accomplished mainly through the publication of books concerning Greek language, philology and literature.

A few gymnasiums in Denmark ( Ribe Katedralskole, Kolding Gymnasium and Odense Katedralskole to name a few ) offer the classical line ( den klassiske linje or den klassisksproglige linje, " the line of classical languages ") consisting of Latin and Ancient Greek, the subjects of classical philology, at A level.

His first scientific works were on the subjects of Ancient Greek philology and Byzantine studies.

During his stint in Japan, he began studying Ancient Greek, with the aim of translating the Gospels into Classical Chinese, and attended lectures on Chinese philology by scholar-revolutionary Zhang Binglin at Rikkyo University, although he was supposed to study civil engineering there.

Classical philology is historically primary, originating in Pergamum and Alexandria around the 4th century B. C., continued by Greeks and Romans throughout the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and eventually taken up by European scholars of the Renaissance, where it was soon joined by philologies of other languages both European ( Germanic, Celtic, Slavistics, etc.

He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Islamic numismatics.

There is a surviving tradition of Latin philology in Western culture connecting the Roman Empire with the Early Modern period.

Subsequently it became a technical term from Latin and Romance-language philology referring to the unwritten varieties of a Latinised language spoken mainly by the uneducated and therefore illiterate Italo-Celtic populations governed by the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

In 1849 Miklošič was appointed to the newly created chair of Slavic philology at the University of Vienna, and he occupied it until 1886.

In 1856 he became a Privatdozent, and in 1858 extraordinary professor at Leipzig ; in 1861 professor of philology and archaeology at Tübingen ; in 1864 professor of classical antiquities at Zürich ; in 1869 at Jena, where he was also director of the archaeological museum ; and in 1874 at Munich, where he remained until his death.

He became professor extraordinarius of oriental languages in the faculty of philology at Halle, was elected professor ordinarius at Marburg in 1885, and was transferred to Göttingen in 1892 where he stayed until his death.

He studied philosophy, philology and theology at Marburg in 1786, and eventually ( 1795 ) became professor ordinarius of theology at the University of Heidelberg, where he remained until his death.

After studying philosophy and philology, he worked as a teacher until 1860, when he became a freelance journalist and writer.

He then taught in various colleges until, in 1865, he was appointed professor of classical philology in the university of Berlin, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Another son, Max Hermann Jellinek ( 1868 – 1938 ), was made assistant professor of German philology at Vienna University in 1892, became an associate professor in 1900 and was a full professor from 1906 until 1934, and from 1919 also a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

From 1905 until 1911, he studied at the University of Vienna, graduating in law and philology, and he taught there from 1913 to 1920.

From 1862 until 1875, he was professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where he occupied the newly-established chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

The traditions of jurisprudence, history, philology, and sociology then evolved into something more closely resembling the modern views of these disciplines and informed the development of the social sciences, of which anthropology was a part.

Classical philology was a major preoccupation of the 19th-century German

This was a major discovery in an important field of mathematics ; construction problems had occupied mathematicians since the days of the Ancient Greeks, and the discovery ultimately led Gauss to choose mathematics instead of philology as a career.

Prior to Grimm's time, philology was nothing but a more or less laborious and conscientious dilettanteism, with occasional flashes of scientific inspiration.

He then went to Frankfurt, where he did not play a big part, but did make some speeches, which tended to stray into the realms of history and philology rather than whatever political question was at hand.

This was largely owing to popular and well-educated lecturers particularly in philology ; the prominent professor Esaias Tegnér was a particularly notable character with widespread authority.

They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.

The original purpose of midrash was to resolve problems in the interpretation of difficult passages of the text of the Hebrew Bible, using Rabbinic principles of hermeneutics & philology to align them with the religious & ethical values of religious teachers.

In the Anglo-Saxon world, the term philology to describe work on languages and literatures, which had become synonymous with the practices of German scholars, was abandoned as a consequence of anti-German feeling following World War I.

The early part of the 18th century was still characterized by the combination of Lutheran orthodoxy and classical philology of the previous century, but eventually a larger emphasis on sciences and practically useful knowledge developed.

In the 19th century the term " Anglo-Saxon " was broadly used in philology, and is sometimes so used at present.

It was renamed the University of Sofia in 1904, where the three faculties of history and philology, physics and mathematics, and law produced civil servants for national and local government offices.

The term was first used improperly in that sense by the pioneers of Romance-language philology: François Juste Marie Raynouard ( 1761 – 1836 ) and Friedrich Christian Diez ( 1794 – 1876 ).

Diez, the principal founder of Romance-language philology, impressed by the comparative methods of Jakob Grimm in Deutsche Grammatik, which came out in 1819 and was the first to use such methods in philology, decided to apply them to the Romance languages and discovered Raynouard's work, Grammaire comparée des langues de l ' Europe latine dans leurs rapports avec la langue des troubadours, published in 1821.

The noted scholar Edward Augustus Freeman said he was " the father of comparative philology ," and in the preface to the last volume of Gerald's works in the Rolls Series, he calls him " one of the most learned men of a learned age ," " the universal scholar.