ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 sets the tone for the volume by comparing what ideals of virtue were propagated by historians, church historians, Arabic philologists, and Biblical scholars in late-nineteenth-century Leiden. The group includes both famous names (Abraham Kuenen, C. P. Tiele) and half-forgotten figures (Reinhart Dozy, J. G. R. Acquoy). What the comparison reveals is that a “philological ethos” characterized by virtues like carefulness, accuracy, patience, and perseverance was valued by all of them, though not to the same degree. This yields a first insight: ideals of scholarly virtue were recognized across the humanities and traveled across disciplinary borders (with Acquoy, the church historian, modeling himself explicitly after Robert Fruin, the historian).
