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The Queen of all human sciences: Philology

Many today do not recognize the word, but “philology” was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only studies of language and literature but also history, culture, religion, art, archaeology and more. How did it become little more than an archaic word?

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Kató Lomb (8 February 1909 – 9 June 2003) was a Hungarian interpreter, translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world.