He was a learned and erudite scholar, but eccentric to the verge of insanity.

I like to think of myself as an aged but extremely erudite scholar.

He was an erudite scholar.

Conversely, an erudite scholar might attempt to "show off" by intentionally constructing a very complicated sentence.

Kossmann was considered a writer with a refined style, and an erudite scholar.

He is an erudite scholar, public speaker, teacher and editor.

Dabeer himself was an erudite scholar of his time.

He was an erudite scholar in Indian and Western philosophy.

Considered by some as a erudite Muslim scholar, he had finished four years of Dars-i-Nizami.

The legends speak of various learned men patronized by Janak Sirdhwaja, who himself was an erudite scholar.