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his·to·ri·og·ra·pher

 (hĭ-stôr′ē-ŏg′rə-fər)
n.
1. A specialist in historiography.
2. A historian, especially one designated by a group or public institution.
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historiographer

(hɪˌstɔːrɪˈɒɡrəfə)
n
1. (Historical Terms) a historian, esp one concerned with historical method and the writings of other historians
2. (Historical Terms) a historian employed to write the history of a group or public institution
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his•to•ri•og•ra•pher

(hɪˌstɔr iˈɒg rə fər, -ˌstoʊr-)

n.
2. an official historian, as of a court, institution, or society.
[1485–95; < Latin historiographus < Greek historiográphos; see history, -o-, -grapher]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about ithistoriographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
annalist - a historian who writes annals
art historian - a historian of art
chronicler - someone who writes chronicles
bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
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Translations

historiographer

[ˌhɪstɒrɪˈɒgrəfəʳ] Nhistoriógrafo/a m/f
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historiographer

[hɪˌstɔːrɪˈɒgrəfəʳ] nstoriografo/a
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Yet it was during this time of play- writing that Dryden was made Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal with the salary of 200 pounds a year and a butt of sack.
A historiographer of philosophy Julian Baggini, in his book A Short History of Truth, has identified 10 types of truths based on a philosophical debate on reason.
Among specific topics are liberal international political economy as colonial science, international relations and the rise of Asia: a new moral imagination for world politics, after first principles: the sociological turn in international relations as disciplinary crisis, for an undisciplined take on international relations: the politics of situated scholarship, and a historiographer's view: rewriting the history of international thought.
This corner will pay tribute to the historical and philosophical contribution of Arab historiographer and historian, Ibn-i-Khaldun and help educate the students about his philosophical views on every aspect of life.
It is true that civilisations clash, and have clashed ever since human time became time, as Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental, 12-volume A Study of History (published between 1934 and 1961), and our own historiographer Ibn Khaldun, in his equally monumental Muqaddimah (published around 1387), averred.
The autobiographical inscription found on the Statue of Idrimi's base archives the King's vicissitudes and major events in his life (his rise to power and military achievements)," said Mahmoud al-Sayyed, a historiographer and an expert in ancient languages and inscriptions at the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums.
And Britain typifies that phenomenon, a phenomenon, so far as anyone is able to take a coherent view of it at all, has bedeviled philosophers of history, all the way from the Muslim historiographer Ibn Khaldun, in "Muqqaddimah" that discussed how human communities lose their "assabiyeh," or elan, to the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who defined it in his seminal work, "Civilization and its Discontents" (1930) as a "death wish," to Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who in his breathtaking "Crowds and Power" (1960) argued how sometimes the interplay of crowds results in self-defeating, self-destructive resolutions.
There is also a rare copy of Muqaddimah (Prolegomena) of Ibn Khaldun, bearing the signature of the North African Arab Muslim historiographer and historian.
Specifically, Dailey zeroes in on what Miri Rubin calls "martyr-making," reminding us that martyrdom is co-constituted "by victim and viewer, by historiographer and reader," and that the martyr's experience is only recognized as such if there is some correlation between the viewpoints of these various agents (94).
Valmiki was a historian by himself and was in fact first historiographer," said Rao.
Teresa Fry Brown, historiographer of the African Methodist Episcopal church, "Persons burned churches because they thought the congregating of blacks together meant that that was a foment for some kind of revolutionary action."