The phrase "a man to study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a man who is the subject of study or analysis, often in academic or research contexts.
Example: "The professor presented a fascinating lecture about a man to study in the field of psychology."
Alternatives: "a subject for study" or "a person to examine".
Pope Joan, possibly an apocryphal figure, disguised herself as a man to study theology.
Athenian women were not allowed to be doctors so Agnodike disguised herself as a man to study medicine.
Ancestry tests performed by companies may examine the Y chromosome (when the submitter is a man) to study paternal heritage, the mitochondrial DNA for maternal heritage, and, in some cases, such as the Mountainview, California-based company 23andme, they look for specific patterns of variation on other chromosomes, too.
A Texas native, who came to New York as a young man to study at the New School, and who is now "over 50 years old," Mr. Carnes is in the middle of a two-year effort to find every house of worship in the five boroughs.
After having been arrested during the military coup in 1980, and with much of his early footage seized and destroyed, Mr. Ataman left Istanbul for the United States as a young man to study filmmaking.
Little else but cinders remained Monday of the house here where 60 children were crammed in by a Muslim holy man to study the Koran — and beg.
Roberts is also not a man to stay in his study – he has walked 53 of Napoleon's battlefields, experiences that have made descriptions of battle as lively, fresh and vivid as any you can find in the canon.
I was comfortable telling her the story and sharing my feelings about the University appointing a such a man to be head of women's studies.
After his return, Patrick, now a deeply religious man, decided to study for the priesthood, and spent some many years in a monastery in France, in preparation for his new work.
From the first female doctor, Margaret Bulkley, who disguised herself as a man in order to study medicine, to activist Claudia Cumberbatch Jones who, in a bid to counteract racism in Britain at the time, established what would go on to become the Notting Hill carnival.
This locality was chosen by convenience because of restricted financial resource and limited man power to study a large area.
