chronicler

/ˈkrɑnɪklər/

/ˈkrɒnɪklə/

Other forms: chroniclers

A chronicler is a recorder of history. You'd better hope there's none of them around when you've just done something embarrassing.

A chronicle is a narrative of events recorded in the order they occur, and the person doing this writing is called a chronicler. Chroniclers were extremely important throughout history to keep records before newspapers, television, and the internet pretty much took over their jobs. The word is derived from Greek and is in the same family as chronology and other words rooted in chron, meaning "time."

Definitions of chronicler

1. noun

   someone who records past events in the order that they occurred
   examples:

   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)

   type of:

   historian, historiographer

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