"Friedrich august wolf" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... representing a type of learned man who was at the same time a priest or something similar. Even in the period of the Reformation people succeeded in emasculating scholarship. It is on this account that Friedrich August Wolf is noteworthy he freed his profession from the bonds of theology. This action of his, however, was not fully understood; for an aggressive, active element, such as was manifested by the poet-philologists of the Renaissance, ...
— We Philologists, Volume 8 (of 18) • Friedrich Nietzsche |
