Possible Antedating of "Scientology"

[Fred Shapiro]

OED has 1951 first use.  Wikipedia has the following:

Although today associated almost exclusively with Hubbard's work, the word
"Scientology" predates Hubbard's creation by several decades. Philologist Allen
Upward used the word "scientology" in his 1901 book The New Word as a synonym
for "pseudoscience",[42] and this is sometimes cited as the first coining of
the word.[43] In 1934, the Argentine-German writer Anastasius Nordenholz
published a book using the word positively: Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der
Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens ("Scientology, Science of the
Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge").[44] Nordenholz's book is a study of
consciousness, and its usage of the word is not greatly different from
Hubbard's definition, "knowing how to know".[45] However, it is not clear to
what extent Hubbard was aware of these earlier uses. The word itself is a
pairing of the Latin word scientia ("knowledge", "skill"), which comes from the
verb scire ("to know"), and the Greek ????? lgos ("reason" or "inward thought"
or "logic" or "an account of").

notes 42-45:
# ^ Allen Upward: The New Word, pp 139, 149 & 156
# ^ Atack, Jon (1990). A Piece of Blue Sky. New York, NY: Carol Publishing
Group, 128. ISBN 0-8184-0499-X.
# ^ http://www.scientologie.de/scientologie/index.htm
# ^ Hubbard, L. Ron Scientology Fundamentals 1956 (website accessed 04/13/06)

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