Philology

study of language in written historical sources

12 dated entries naming Philology, drawn from 12 separate years between 257 BCE and 1201 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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3rd century BC

  • 257 BCEAristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar and grammarian (approximate date)source

1st century BC

  • 74 BCELucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Roman philologistsource

9th century

  • 837Ibn Duraid, Muslim poet and philologist (d. 933)source

10th century

  • 920Menahem ben Saruq, Spanish Jewish philologist (d. 970)source
  • 933Ibn Duraid, Arab poet and philologist (b. 837)source
  • 970Menahem ben Saruq, Jewish philologist (approximate date)source

11th century

  • 1074April – Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi, Arab philologist (d. 1144)source

12th century

  • 1116Ibn al-Jawzi, Arab historian and philologist (d. 1201)source
  • 1144July 17 – Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi, Arab philologist (b. 1074)source
  • 1146Abu Musa al-Jazuli, Almohad philologian and writer (d. 1211)source
  • 1171Muhammad Aufi, Persian historian and philologist (d. 1242)source

13th century

  • 1201June 16 – Ibn al-Jawzi, Arab historian and philologist (b. 1116)source