Possible Clues:

• Scholar
• Bookish one
• Gasp about the editor being a bit of a stickler!
• Person who is strict on rules and details
• Person who pays too much attention to formal rules
• Panted like dogmatist
• Panted like stickler for accuracy
• Desire to restrain editor who's such a nitpicker
• Academic forces Master into tantrum
• One excessively concerned with minor detail