historiographer
Americannoun
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a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
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an official historian, as of a court, institution, or cultural or learned society.
noun
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a historian, esp one concerned with historical method and the writings of other historians
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a historian employed to write the history of a group or public institution
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Etymology
Origin of historiographer
1485–95; < Latin historiograph ( us ) < Greek historiográphos ( see history, -o-, -graph) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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“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
The interest of all or most of these turns on the sufferings of the femme incomprise, a celebrated person in literature, of whom George Sand is the historiographer, if not the inventor.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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