The phrase "acquiring a knowledge" is not correct in standard English; it should be "acquiring knowledge." You can use it when discussing the process of gaining understanding or information about a subject.
Example: "She is focused on acquiring knowledge in the field of environmental science to contribute to sustainable practices."
Alternatives: "gaining knowledge" or "obtaining knowledge."
He began his school days there, acquiring a knowledge of German that later was to prove useful.
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.
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 thus acquired a knowledge of London which, like Sam Weller's, was extensive and peculiar.
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.
Paracelsus died at the age of forty-eight, after a wandering life, part of which was spent in the mining town of Villach, where he not only studied the diseases of miners, but also acquired a knowledge of chemistry.
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.
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.
