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. Dina Porat:

   For somebody who knows something about history and grew up in the house of historian Professor Benzion Netanyahu, he should know well, but in my humble opinion, to say that the mufti gave Adolf Hitler the idea is wrong.

2. Lionel Trilling:

   Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

3. Lytton Strachey:

   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.

4. Friedrich von Schlegel:

   The historian is a prophet in reverse.

5. Herodotus:

   Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.