historiographer

[ hi-stawr-ee-og-ruh-fer, -stohr- ]

/ hɪˌstɔr iˈɒg rə fər, -ˌstoʊr- /

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noun

a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.

an official historian, as of a court, institution, or cultural or learned society.

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Origin of historiographer

1485–95; < Latin historiograph(us) < Greek historiográphos (see history, -o-, -graph) + -er¹

Related formshis·to·ri·og·ra·pher·ship, noun

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Examples from the Web for historiographer

For the Methode of a Poet historical is not such, as of an Historiographer.
Spenser|R. W. Church
Now, as to the words of the historiographer, speaking in his own person.
Not Paul, But Jesus|Jeremy Bentham
Dryden did not abjure his new faith on the Revolution, and so lost his office and pension as laureate and historiographer royal.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7|Various
He was made gentleman of the chamber and historiographer of France.
Voltaire|John Morley

Neither in the works of Paul himself, nor in that of his historiographer, is any intimation to any such effect to be found.
Not Paul, But Jesus|Jeremy Bentham

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