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

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

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

Avila, Gil Gonzalez d', a Spanish antiquary and biographer, 1577-1658; made historiographer of Castile in 1612, and of the Indies in 1641.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

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