historiographer
English Thesaurus
1. a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it (noun.person)
hypernym | : | bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student, |
definition | : | a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | annalist, |
definition | : | a historian who writes annals (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | art historian, |
definition | : | a historian of art (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | chronicler, |
definition | : | someone who writes chronicles (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | arendt, hannah arendt, |
definition | : | United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | baeda, beda, bede, saint baeda, saint beda, saint bede, st. baeda, st. beda, st. bede, the venerable bede, |
definition | : | (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | carlyle, thomas carlyle, |
definition | : | Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | eusebius, eusebius of caesarea, |
definition | : | Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine; a church historian and a leading early Christian exegete (circa 270-340) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | franklin, john hope franklin, |
definition | : | United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gardiner, samuel rawson gardiner, |
definition | : | British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edward gibbon, gibbon, |
definition | : | English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | herodotus, |
definition | : | the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john knox, knox, |
definition | : | Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | livy, titus livius, |
definition | : | Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alfred thayer mahan, mahan, |
definition | : | United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john bach mcmaster, mcmaster, |
definition | : | United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mommsen, theodor mommsen, |
definition | : | German historian noted for his history of Rome (1817-1903) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | barthold george niebuhr, niebuhr, |
definition | : | German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | james harvey robinson, robinson, |
definition | : | United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | saxo grammaticus, |
definition | : | Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | stubbs, william stubbs, |
definition | : | English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | thucydides, |
definition | : | ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | george macaulay trevelyan, trevelyan, |
definition | : | English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | frederick jackson turner, turner, |
definition | : | United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | elie wiesel, eliezer wiesel, wiesel, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | xenophon, |
definition | : | Greek general and historian; student of Socrates (430-355 BC) (noun.person) |
domain category | : | history, |
definition | : | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (noun.cognition) |
derivation | : | historiography, |
definition | : | a body of historical literature (noun.communication) |
derivation | : | historiography, |
definition | : | a body of historical literature (noun.communication) |
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