historian

[ hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr- ]

noun

1. an expert in history; authority on history.
2. a writer of history; chronicler.

historian

/ hɪˈstɔːrɪən /

noun

1. a person who writes or studies history, esp one who is an authority on it

Word History and Origins

Origin of historian¹

1400–50; late Middle English. See history, -an

Example Sentences

Readers who are not deep historians are in for many layers of surprise inside “Eleanor,” the first being Roosevelt’s early life, and the racism she exhibited as a young woman.

From Washington Blade

The historian in me, I never want to lose the appreciation for those who threw for 120 yards and won a game.

From Washington Post

Prokopios was the court historian of the Byzantine Empire’s most well-known rulers, Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora.

From Time

Diane Ravitch is a former assistant secretary of education and historian.

From Washington Post

According to Gunter Krebs, a spaceflight historian and physicist, at the time of the heist, Luna 3 was likely spinning around the Earth at a distance of 310,000 miles, being gradually drawn into the Earth’s atmosphere.

From MIT Technology Review

Historian Matthew Avery Sutton, however, wants you to think of something else: the End Times.

From The Daily Beast

Michael Kazin is a historian who has written a lot about the New Left.

From The Daily Beast

Fred Logevall at Cornell won the Pulitzer Prize and is a diplomatic historian; he just started a book on Kennedy.

From The Daily Beast

But Winning Marriage will be essential for the historian who, someday, tries to tell the full story.

From The Daily Beast

“It was a moment of shock that Doar never forgot,” notes historian Taylor Branch.

From The Daily Beast

Giovanni Francesca Abela, a historian and ecclesiastic of Malta, died.

From Project Gutenberg

Andrew Michael Ramsay, a Scottish historian and philosopher, died.

From Project Gutenberg

Buchanan the historian was, from his learning, thought in his days of superstition to be a wizard.

From Project Gutenberg

John Cantacuzenus, the historian of his own times, and a defender of the faith, inaugurated emperor of Constantinople.

From Project Gutenberg

No historian claims that any God has been seen on earth for nearly nineteen centuries.

From Project Gutenberg

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