Historiographer

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Historiographer \His*to`ri*og"ra*pher\
     (h[i^]s*t[=o]`r[i^]*[o^]g"r[.a]*f[~e]r), n. [L.
     historiographus, Gr. "istoriogra`fos; "istori`a history +
     gra`fein to write: cf. F. historiographe.]
     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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  historiographer
       n : a person who is an authority on history and who studies it
           and writes about it [syn: {historian}]