#humanist  a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts
  supertype:  scholarly_person__scholarlyperson__scholar__student  a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
  subtype:  classical_scholar__classicalscholar__classicist  a student of ancient Greek and Latin
     subtype:  Latinist  a specialist in the Latin language
     instance:  Benjamin_Jowett__Jowett  Gilbert_Murray__Murray__George_Gilbert_Aime_Murphy  Friedrich_August_Wolf__Wolf
  subtype:  man_of_letters  a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities
  subtype:  philologist__philologue  a humanist specializing in classical scholarship
     instance:  Baron_Karl_Wilhelm_von_Humboldt__Humboldt__Baron_Wilhelm_von_Humboldt  Friedrich_Max_Muller__Muller__Max_Muller  Sir_James_Augustus_Henry_Murray__Murray__James_Murray__James_Augustus_Murray__James_Augustus_Henry_Murray__Sir_James_Murray__Sir_James_Augustus_Murray  Rasmus_Christian_Rask__Rask  Walter_William_Skeat__Skeat  John_Ronald_Reuel_Tolkien__Tolkien__J._R._R._Tolkien  Karl_Adolph_Verner__Verner

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