scholar
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thumb|upright=1.1|The Scholar and His Books by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a terminal degree, such as a master's degree or a doctorate. Independent scholars and public intellectuals work outside the academy yet may publish in academic journals and participate in scholarly public discussion.
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- Instance of
- occupation
- Subclass of
- person
- Image
- Two monks discussing, from the manuscript De Universo or "De rerum naturis", Monte Cassino MS Casin 132.jpg
- Said to be same as
- scientist
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- has characteristic
- erudition
- facet of
- knowledge
- male form of label
- eruditas
- Commons category
- Scholars
- partially coincident with
- intellectual
- female form of label
- эрудитка
- topic's main category
- Category:Scholars
- P8168
- Jan Michael Sprenger
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6 sectionsContents
- Definitions
- Role in society
- Independent scholars
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=1.1|The Scholar and His Books by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a terminal degree, such as a master's degree or a doctorate. Independent scholars and public intellectuals work outside the academy yet may publish in academic journals and participate in scholarly public discussion.
==Definitions== In contemporary English usage, the term scholar sometimes is equivalent to the term academic, and describes a university-educated individual who has achieved intellectual mastery of an academic discipline, as instructor and as researcher. Moreover, before the establishment of universities, the term scholar identified and described an intellectual person whose primary occupation was professional research. In 1847, minister Emanuel Vogel Gerhart spoke of the role of the scholar in society:
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