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English
Etymology
From historiography + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
historiographer (plural historiographers)
- A scholar who studies historiography.
1734, Mary Stephens, “To the King”, in Bacon, Robert Stephens, compiler, edited by , Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, London: W Bowyer, →OCLC, page :May Your Majeſty be pleaſed to accept theſe remains of a noble Author, as they vvere collected by the care of Your late Hiſtoriographer; […]
1856, L. S. Lavenu, chapter XVII, in Erlesmere; or, Contrasts of Character, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 171:"That's a fine young fellow," said the historiographer of earwigs, to an American who stood next him in the crowd.
Derived terms
Translations
scholar who studies historiography