linguist vs philologist

linguist

noun
  • One who studies linguistics. 

  • A human translator; an interpreter, especially in the armed forces. 

  • A person skilled in languages. 

philologist

noun
  • A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies. 

  • A person devoted to general learning and literature. 

  • A person devoted to classical scholarship. 

How often have the words linguist and philologist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )