historian
[hi-stawr-ee-uh n, -stohr-]
- an expert in history; authority on history.
- a writer of history; chronicler.
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Origin of historian
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Examples from the Web for historian
Contemporary Examples
Historian Matthew Avery Sutton, however, wants you to think of something else: the End Times.
Michael Kazin is a historian who has written a lot about the New Left.
But Winning Marriage will be essential for the historian who, someday, tries to tell the full story.
“Stop the presses,” splashes Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer.
Wonder Woman’s Creation Story Is Wilder Than You Could Ever ImagineTom Arnold-Forster
November 3, 2014
Historian David Fromkin summed up the mess that resulted in the title of his book The Peace to End All Peace.
Historical Examples
And Shakspere has no desire or need to act the historian in the decision of that question.
A Dish Of OrtsGeorge MacDonald
Mr. Bancroft, the historian, delivered the Inaugural Address.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
John Stow, the historian, worked at the trade during some part of his life.
Self-HelpSamuel Smiles
The world seems to be waiting for the historian that can write.
The Coryston FamilyMrs. Humphry Ward
He had not been content to take up the position of onlooker and historian only.
A Nest of SpiesPierre Souvestre
historian
- a person who writes or studies history, esp one who is an authority on it
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Word Origin and History for historian
n.
mid-15c., from Middle French historien (14c.), from Latin historia (see history). As "writer of history in the higher sense" (distinguished from a mere annalist or chronicler), from 1530s. The Old English word was þeod-wita.
[T]he historian's fallacy is the error of assuming that a man who has a given historical experience knows it, when he has had it, to be all that a historian would know it to be, with the advantage of historical perspective. [David Hackett Fischer, "Historians' Fallacies," 1970]
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