historian

1. A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it (synset 110196781)
   referred to in: history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
   is a type of: 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
   subtypes:

   • annalist - a historian who writes annals
   • art historian - a historian of art
   • chronicler - someone who writes chronicles
   specific instances:

   • arendt, hannah arendt - United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975)
   • baeda, beda, bede, saint baeda, saint beda, saint bede, st. baeda, st. beda, st. bede, the venerable bede - (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
   • carlyle, thomas carlyle - Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881)
   • durant, will durant, william james durant - United States historian (1885-1981)
   • eusebius, eusebius of caesarea - Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine; a church historian and a leading early Christian exegete (circa 270-340)
   • franklin, john hope franklin - United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)
   • gardiner, samuel rawson gardiner - British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902)
   • edward gibbon, gibbon - English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
   • herodotus - 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)
   • flavius josephus, joseph ben matthias, josephus - Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)
   • john knox, knox - Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)
   • livy, titus livius - 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)
   • first baron macaulay, lord macaulay, macaulay, thomas babington macaulay - English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)
   • alfred thayer mahan, mahan - United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914)
   • frederic william maitland, maitland - English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906)
   • john bach mcmaster, mcmaster - United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932)
   • mommsen, theodor mommsen - German historian noted for his history of Rome (1817-1903)
   • barthold george niebuhr, niebuhr - German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831)
   • c. northcote parkinson, cyril northcote parkinson, parkinson - British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)
   • james harvey robinson, robinson - United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)
   • saxo grammaticus - Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?)
   • arthur meier schlesinger, arthur schlesinger, schlesinger - United States historian (1888-1965)
   • arthur meier schlesinger jr., arthur schlesinger, arthur schlesinger jr., schlesinger - United States historian and advisor to President Kennedy (born in 1917)
   • stubbs, william stubbs - English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901)
   • gaius cornelius tacitus, publius cornelius tacitus, tacitus - Roman historian who wrote major works on the history of the Roman Empire (56-120)
   • thucydides - ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC)
   • arnold joseph toynbee, arnold toynbee, toynbee - English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)
   • george otto trevelyan, sir george otto trevelyan, trevelyan - English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928)
   • george macaulay trevelyan, trevelyan - English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962)
   • barbara tuchman, barbara wertheim tuchman, tuchman - United States historian (1912-1989)
   • frederick jackson turner, turner - United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)
   • sir paul gavrilovich vinogradoff, vinogradoff - British historian (born in Russia) (1854-1925)
   • fourth earl of orford, horace walpole, horatio walpole, walpole - English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
   • elie wiesel, eliezer wiesel, wiesel - 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)
   • c. vann woodward, comer vann woodward, woodward - United States historian (1908-1999)
   • xenophon - Greek general and historian; student of Socrates (430-355 BC)
   same as: historiographer

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