Synonyms for historian
hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr-his·to·ri·an

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1. historian, historiographernoun

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

   Synonyms:
   historiographer

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1. • History
   • Scholar

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1. historiannoun

   Synonyms:
   chronicler, annalist, writer of history

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1. List of paraphrases for "historian":

   history, saga

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1. Tertius Myburgh:

   Johannes was something of a Renaissance man. First of all, artist. Then author, historian, archivist and even sort-of farmer. Above all, he was a thoughtful, loving and loveable human being who thought very deeply about the human condition

2. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918):

   The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

3. Edward Morgan Forster:

   The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

4. American University:

   The hardest thing I had to do as a historian on the topic of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Jews was not to rewrite history based on what we know and believe today.

5. Friedrich von Schlegel:

   The historian is a prophet in reverse.