antiquarianist
Definitions
noun
A proponent of antiquarianism.
As scholar he is an antiquarianist, a specialist in a particular field, and as a teacher he is concerned with his students.
[…] Angelus Politianus as being an antiquarianist according to certain critics.
adj
Pertaining to antiquarianism.
Within the framework of the ideology of antiquarianist (traditional) religion or culture, oppression is experienced sometimes as a problem, sometimes as a solution.
The cultural life around them would have been off-limits, which might explain why toward the end of the eighteenth century some Anglo-Irish men and women “awaken[ed] a new historical consciousness” (Trumpener 24) through antiquarianist scholarship that that (in true melancholist fashion) both preserved and mourned the folkloric traditions forbidden to them as children.