Sentence examples for famous scholar from inspiring English sources

The professor: no famous scholar, talks literature in crunchy Brooklynese.

Bassiano was the birthplace, in about 1450, of the most famous scholar printer of the Renaissance, Aldus Manutius.

Within Hersey's fictional universe, Levinson is a writer and famous scholar who wrote books entitled The Diaspora and the Customs.

The determination to use my education to become a famous scholar gradually made room for a half-baked resolution to become a useful art historian.

He was the elder brother of Chŏng Yak-yong, the famous scholar of the Silhak (Korean: "Practical Learning") movement in the late Chosŏn (Yi) dynasty.

A world famous scholar who dabbled in the undefined area between science and sorcery, he was reputed to be the model for Marlowe's Dr Faustus and Shakespeare's Prospero.

The academy, which offered courses in English, French, engineering, and navigation, produced a generation of Western-trained officers, including the famous scholar-reformer Yan Fu (1854 1921).

Wang influenced many Chinese leaders of the generation that followed his, including the famous scholar-reformer Kang Youwei (1858 1927) and the great Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen (1866 1925).

Clemons, now president of the Grolier Club in Manhattan, co-organized an exhibition that opened at the club last month titled "Aldus Manutius: A Legacy More Lasting Than Bronze". Aldus Manutius, who died 500 years ago this year, was a famous scholar-printer of the Italian Renaissance.

Wherever he went, he debated with famous scholars and was patronized and consulted by local rulers.

Semiprivate schools formed by famous scholars gave lectures and tutelage to students numbering in the hundreds.