English > historian: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it. |
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| Synonym | historiographer |
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| Category | history | The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings |
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| Instances | Arendt, Hannah Arendt | United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975) |
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| Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the Venerable Bede | (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735) |
| Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle | Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881) |
| Durant, Will Durant, William James Durant | United States historian (1885-1981) |
| Eusebius, Eusebius of Caesarea | Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine |
| Franklin, John Hope Franklin | United States historian noted for studies / studies of Black American history (born in 1915) |
| Gardiner, Samuel Rawson Gardiner | British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902) |
| Gibbon, Edward Gibbon | English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794) |
| Herodotus | The ancient Greek known as the father of history |
| Josephus, Flavius Josephus, Joseph ben Matthias | Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100) |
| Knox, John Knox | Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572) |
| Livy, Titus Livius | Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17) |
| Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, First Baron Macaulay, Lord Macaulay | English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859) |
| Mahan, Alfred Thayer Mahan | United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914) |
| Maitland, Frederic William Maitland | English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906) |
| McMaster, John Bach McMaster | United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932) |
| Mommsen, Theodor Mommsen | German historian noted for his history of Rome (1817-1903) |
| Niebuhr, Barthold George Niebuhr | German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831) |
| Parkinson, C. Northcote Parkinson, Cyril Northcote Parkinson | British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993) |
| Robinson, James Harvey Robinson | United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936) |
| Saxo Grammaticus | Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?) |
| Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger, Arthur Meier Schlesinger | United States historian (1888-1965) |
| Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. | United States historian and advisor to President Kennedy (born in 1917) |
| Stubbs, William Stubbs | English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901) |
| Tacitus, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius Tacitus | Roman historian who wrote major works on the history of the Roman Empire (56-120) |
| Thucydides | ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC) |
| Toynbee, Arnold Toynbee, Arnold Joseph Toynbee | English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975) |
| Trevelyan, George Otto Trevelyan, Sir George Otto Trevelyan | English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928) |
| Trevelyan, George Macaulay Trevelyan | English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962) |
| Tuchman, Barbara Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman | United States historian (1912-1989) |
| Turner, Frederick Jackson Turner | United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951) |
| Vinogradoff, Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff | British historian (born in Russia) (1854-1925) |
| Walpole, Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford | English writer and historian |
| Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel | United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928) |
| Woodward, C. Vann Woodward, Comer Vann Woodward | United States historian (1908-1999) |
| Xenophon | Greek general and historian |
| Narrower | annalist | A historian who writes annals |
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| art historian | A historian of art |
| chronicler | someone who writes chronicles |
| Broader | scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student | A learned person (especially in the humanities) |
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| Spanish | historiadora, historiador, historiógrafo |
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| Catalan | historiador, historiògraf |
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