historiographer

American  

[hi-stawr-ee-og-ruh-fer, -stohr-] / hɪˌstɔr iˈɒg rə fər, -ˌstoʊr- /

noun

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

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

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historiographer British  

/ hɪˌstɔːrɪˈɒɡrəfə /

noun

1. a historian, esp one concerned with historical method and the writings of other historians

2. a historian employed to write the history of a group or public institution

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Other Word Forms

• historiographership noun

Etymology

Origin of historiographer

1485–95; < Latin historiograph ( us ) < Greek historiográphos ( history, -o-, -graph ) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“This is a natural outgrowth of this earlier forging of a much closer alliance between the civil rights movement and labor,” said Dickerson, the former historiographer for the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022

Into that circle now steps Lepore, a professor of history at Harvard who, since 1999, has written for the New Yorker as a kind of unofficial national historiographer.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2016

Arnold J. Toynbee, wispy British historiographer whose magnum opus, A Study of History, is six volumes long already, arrived in the U.S. to work on the final three volumes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a meeting of the church's leaders on a single, urgent topic is "very, very rare," says the Rev. J. Robert Wright, official historiographer of the Episcopal Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

This tuber or groundnut is the one described by Mr. Thomas Herriot, the historiographer of Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to Virginia in 1585, under the Indian name of "Openawk."

From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Fuller, Andrew S.

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