The part of the sentence "acquire a knowledge of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase when you want to communicate the idea of gaining or obtaining knowledge. Example: "I'm trying to acquire a knowledge of Spanish so I can communicate better with my family in Mexico."
Returning to London for two years in 1744, he began to acquire a knowledge of the old masters and an independent style marked by bold brushwork and the use of impasto, a thick surface texture of paint, such as in his portrait of Captain the Honourable John Hamilton (1746).
After spending the latter part of 1862 and the early months of 1863 in London so as to acquire a knowledge of English, he began a lifelong career as a schoolteacher, first in provincial schools (Tournon, Besançon, and Avignon) and later in Paris.
The subject of metaphysics is being in all its amplitude in order to acquire a knowledge of the cause of being that will be correspondingly unbounded.
A common feature of all of the competencies formulated is that all students must acquire a knowledge of the clinical pharmacology of essential drugs and diseases and must master prescribing skills in order to become competent in the rational prescription of drugs.
Latrobe attended the Moravian college at Niesky, Saxony, and traveled in France and Italy, acquiring a knowledge of advanced French architecture.
At the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain) in 1522, he encountered Flemish humanism and became a language scholar, acquiring a knowledge of both Greek and Hebrew.
From the large Moorish population in Majorca he acquired a knowledge of Arabic, which he used in some of his writings.
As an art restorer, he acquired a knowledge of the old masters' materials and methods "until I would one day be able to 'restore' a whole painting, from nothing at all", he later recalled.
A seminary or normal school for "young men who had already passed through an elementary, or even a superior school, and who were preparing to be teachers, by making additional attainments, and acquiring a knowledge of the human mind, and the principles of education as a science, and of its methods as an art" was set up in Halle in 1706.
He also acquired a knowledge of rhetoric as well as the liberal arts.
Symeon of Durham considered St-Calais to be well-educated in classical literature and the scriptures; at some point St-Calais also acquired a knowledge of canon law.
