The phrase "a scholar rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when making a comparison or distinction between being a scholar and another role or identity.
Example: "She chose to pursue a career as a scholar rather than a practitioner in the field."
Alternatives: "an academic instead of" or "a researcher rather than".
He was a learned scholar rather than a deep thinker, a sound traditionalist and not a speculative theologian, more competent as editor than as exegete.
Clover brings a macrocosmic perspective to questions of space and structure and artifice and exchange which is so sophisticated at times it seems to demand a cultural studies scholar rather than a reader; and yet it's hardly so, really, as The Totality for Kids is by turns amusing and profound and energetic and relevant in a way any serious reader of poetry can appreciate.
Others argued that democracy was a better way to divine God's will, or that a committee of scholars, rather than a single man, would suit the leadership function better.
Thus as it comes to us now the autobiography is a book for scholars rather than readers and must be approached as such.
He condemns the narrowness of modern academia, the segregation by discipline and the proliferation of journals whose articles are read by a tiny group of fellow scholars rather than by the general public.
The family moved back to India (Calcutta [now Kolkata]) when he was young, and he received a traditional Islamic education at home from his father and other Islamic scholars rather than at a madrasah (Islamic school).
Most of the authors are literary scholars rather than film scholars, and as a result, despite its title, this anthology contains few essays that are actually about Jackson's film as such.
They should think of themselves as diagnosticians, therapists, and scholars rather than as technicians, Drucker said, and must understand a company's unique competencies, culture, and history.
The superintendent additionally instructed teachers and administrators to refer to students as "scholars," rather than as "boys and girls".
An obvious and unique component of FIRST IV was its focus on postdoctoral scholars rather than faculty with experience in teaching.
