Sentence examples for famous scholars from inspiring English sources

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

At first his purpose was to fulfill that religious duty and to broaden his education by studying under famous scholars in Egypt, Syria, and the Hejaz (western Arabia).

There appear to have been Chinese collectors during the Song dynasty (960 1279) interested in books printed by renowned publishers, copied in manuscript by famous scholars, or annotated by celebrities.

At 19 his knowledge of Chinese painting was formed when he enrolled at Zhejiang Provincial Teachers Collegee in Hangzhou, where he studied with the famous scholars and painters Jing Hengyi and Li Shutong.

Swami Vivekananda embarked upon his own yatra, the famous Bharat Darshan Yatra, in the early 1890s, but for very different reasons.During his five-year journey across India, he met maharajas and viziers, famous scholars and artists while seeing and visiting great centers of learning.

In his 40s, he composed his last major work, In Novum Testamentum ex diversorum utriusque linguae codicum collatione adnotationes ("Annotations on the New Testament Collected from Various Codices in Each Language"), with the encouragement and advice of two famous scholars, the cardinals Bessarion and Nicholas of Cusa.

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.

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.

"He is the most famous scholar of the last generation," said Tom Cartelli, a Shakespeare authority and professor of English at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania.