historiographer(n = noun.person) historian - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it; Array
is a kind of bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
has particulars: annalist, art historian, chronicler, arendt, hannah arendt, baeda, beda, bede, saint baeda, saint beda, saint bede, st. baeda, st. beda, st. bede, the venerable bede, carlyle, thomas carlyle, durant, will durant, william james durant, eusebius, eusebius of caesarea, franklin, john hope franklin, gardiner, samuel rawson gardiner, edward gibbon, gibbon, herodotus, flavius josephus, joseph ben matthias, josephus, john knox, knox, livy, titus livius, first baron macaulay, lord macaulay, macaulay, thomas babington macaulay, alfred thayer mahan, mahan, frederic william maitland, maitland, john bach mcmaster, mcmaster, mommsen, theodor mommsen, barthold george niebuhr, niebuhr, c. northcote parkinson, cyril northcote parkinson, parkinson, james harvey robinson, robinson, saxo grammaticus, arthur meier schlesinger, arthur schlesinger, schlesinger, arthur meier schlesinger jr., arthur schlesinger, arthur schlesinger jr., schlesinger, stubbs, william stubbs, gaius cornelius tacitus, publius cornelius tacitus, tacitus, thucydides, arnold joseph toynbee, arnold toynbee, toynbee, george otto trevelyan, sir george otto trevelyan, trevelyan, george macaulay trevelyan, trevelyan, barbara tuchman, barbara wertheim tuchman, tuchman, frederick jackson turner, turner, sir paul gavrilovich vinogradoff, vinogradoff, fourth earl of orford, horace walpole, horatio walpole, walpole, elie wiesel, eliezer wiesel, wiesel, c. vann woodward, comer vann woodward, woodward, xenophon
Derived form noun historiography1
An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction. [1913 Webster]
historiographer, n.
1 an expert in or student of historiography.
2 a writer of history, esp. an official historian.
Etymology:
ME f. F historiographe or f. LL historiographus f. Gk historiographos (as HISTORY, -GRAPHER)
N recorder, notary, clerk, registrar, registrary, register, prothonotary, amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu, remembrancer, bookkeeper, custos rotulorum, Master of the Rolls, annalist, historian, historiographer, chronicler, journalist, biographer, antiquary, memorialist, interviewer.