noun. A specialist in historiography.

noun. A historian, especially one designated by a group or public institution.

noun. A historian; a writer of history; particularly, in later use, a professional or official historian: a title often conferred by European courts, usually as an honorary distinction, and sometimes by public bodies or institutions.

noun. An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.

noun. a scholar who studies historiography

noun. a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

"Cardinal Pallavicini (d. 1667), known as the historiographer of the Council of Trent, won repute as a dogmatic theologian by several of his writings."