historiographer

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

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.

historiographer

/ 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

Other Words From

• his·tori·ogra·pher·ship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of historiographer¹

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

Today, and most likely forever, we can leave questions regarding Wallingford’s borders to the new core of enthused historiographers called Historic Wallingford.

From Seattle Times

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

Yet virtually all pop historiographers elevate the importance of the Pistols above that of the Bee Gees.

From New York Times

“The more recent waves of historiographers would point out that this is the heart of the empire and echoes the diversity of the empire in a bustling metropolis,” she says.

From The Guardian

Related Words

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• teacher
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