Hypertext Webster Gateway: "historian"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Historian \His*to"ri*an\, n. [F. historien.]
1. A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
Even the historian takes great liberties with facts.
--Sir J.
Reynolds.
2. One versed or well informed in history.
Great captains should be good historians. --South.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
historian
n : a person who is an authority on history and who studies it
and writes about it [syn: {historiographer}]
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