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. 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.

2. European Council President Donald Tusk:

   Why is it so dangerous? Because no one can foresee what the long-term consequences would be, as a historian I fear that Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also of western political civilization in its entirety.

3. 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.

4. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

   Has any historian sought to question why the wagonmaster of America's westward-bound pioneers 'circled' the wagons instead of 'squaring' or 'triangulating' them for a better defense strategy in fighting-off Indian raids on the plains:

5. Edward Morgan Forster:

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