Sentence examples for greatest scholar from inspiring English sources

The government created an institute named after Ahmed Baba, Timbuktu's greatest scholar, to collect, preserve and interpret the manuscripts.

The greatest scholar of an artist is not necessarily considered the greatest connoisseur, and with a diverse oeuvre there can be different authorities for each medium.

He is the only early author whose work is well represented in the corpus of surviving literature (21 plays judged authentic by Marcus Terentius Varro, Rome's greatest scholar).

116 BCE Reate?, Italy 27 BCE Marcus Terentius Varro, (born 116 bc, probably Reate, Italy died 27 bc) Rome's greatest scholar and a satirist of stature, best known for his Saturae Menippeae ("Menippean Satires").

He is known for a wide range of contributions to the study of Old Irish linguistic, literary, and legal history; and indeed he is usually considered to have been the greatest scholar ever in these fields.

Asaad could have fled when Isis advanced towards the ancient Semitic city, but he had spent most of his life there looking after its pillared temples, becoming its greatest scholar, and would not abandon it.

Irwin, as you probably know, is the world's greatest scholar-practitioner of baggy-pants clowning (as well as a Tony-winning actor and Sesame Street's Mr. Noodle).

Before the 1940s many of America's greatest scholars and scientists went abroad to study.

Poland was home to some of Judaism's greatest scholars and Yeshivas, or religious schools.

He was revered by many as one of the greatest scholars of his age.

His reforms attracted some of the greatest scholars of his day, including the Anglo-Saxon Alcuin and the Visigoth Theodulf of Orléans.