From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe a student of somethingbe a student of somethingLEARNto be very interested in a particular subject He’s obviously an excellent student of human nature. → student
Examples from the Corpus
be a student of something• He announced that he was a student of divinity; did Mr Arkwright read his Bible?• In the evening I was invited to have dinner with a citizen of the city, whose son is a student of.• Jim is a student of mathematics.• Most journalists are students of human behaviour.• Before the hobbyists even integrated the word into their lexicon, Raskin was a student of interface.• She was a student of some sort, I don't know of what.• One of them was a student of military uniforms.• Weber was a student of social organisations and was interested in how organisations could direct the individuals in them towards given objectives. 