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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. historiannoun

    Synonyms:
    chronicler, annalist, writer of history

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  1. List of paraphrases for "historian":

    history, saga

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  1. 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.

  2. John Sherwood:

    As a historian, I always found it interesting that he didn't really talk about it [ his time as a POW ] unless asked, he saw it as part of his service to the country, and did n’t want to dwell on past service but what he could do today, here and now.

  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. Paul de Man:

    The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

  5. Stephen Oxford:

    As a local historian I was amazed and delighted to have the details of the letter passed to me.


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