---

• n  a humanist specializing in classical scholarship

• John was a hard-core philologist who really really liked Norse and Greek stuff.
• Trained as a philologist in Havana but denied a career in academiaher dissertation, entitled Dictatorships in Latin American Literature, was perceived as a veiled criticism of .
• Says one philologist: "It was once thought that most slang came from the underworld, but nowadays a great deal of it comes from the average middle-class types who belong to golf .

• philologue

Quotes

---

• David Brooks in The AtlanticWire (blog)
  It was the winter of 2007. Dr. Faustus, the famous left-wing philologist, was sitting in a coffee shop in despair over the Bush-Cheney regime and the future of his country,begins Brooks, alluding to the character who traded his soul to the...