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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