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A historian is someone who is an authority on history; they study it and usually write about it.

If you've ever taken a history class, chances are it was taught by a historian — someone who is an expert on history. You don't get to be a historian overnight; most historians have studied history for years and have a Master's or Ph.D. in history. If you want an informed opinion on past elections, wars, disasters, and trends, talk to a historian or read a book by one. Historians are experts on the past.

DEFINITIONS OF: historian

n a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

Synonyms:: historiographer

Examples:: show 41 examples...; hide 41 examples...; Hannah Arendt
United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975); the Venerable Bede
(Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735); Thomas Carlyle
Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881); William James Durant
United States historian (1885-1981); Eusebius of Caesarea
Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine; a church historian and a leading early Christian exegete (circa 270-340); John Hope Franklin
United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915); Samuel Rawson Gardiner
British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902); 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; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC); 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); John Knox
Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572); 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); Thomas Babington Macaulay
English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859); Alfred Thayer Mahan
United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914); Frederic William Maitland
English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906); John Bach McMaster
United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932); Theodor Mommsen
German historian noted for his history of Rome (1817-1903); Barthold George Niebuhr
German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831); Cyril Northcote Parkinson
British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993); 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?); Arthur Meier Schlesinger
United States historian (1888-1965); Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
United States historian and advisor to President Kennedy (born in 1917); William Stubbs
English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901); Publius 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); Arnold Joseph Toynbee
English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975); Sir George Otto Trevelyan
English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928); 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); Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
United States historian (1912-1989); Frederick Jackson Turner
United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951); Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff
British historian (born in Russia) (1854-1925); Fourth Earl of Orford
English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797); 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); Comer Vann Woodward
United States historian (1908-1999); Xenophon
Greek general and historian; student of Socrates (430-355 BC); Geoffrey of Monmouth
Welsh chronicler who wrote an account of the kings of Britain which is now believed to contain little historical fact but it is a source of the Arthurian legend (circa 1100-1154); Erwin Panofsky
art historian (1892-1968); Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574); Aby Moritz Warburg
German art historian (1866-1929); Johann Joachim Winckelmann
German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768)

Types:: annalist
a historian who writes annals; art historian
a historian of art; chronicler
someone who writes chronicles

Type of:: bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

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