Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Historiographer \His*to`ri*og"ra*pher\, n. [L. historiographus,
   Gr. ?; ? history + ? to write: cf. F. historiographe.]
   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.

Source : WordNet®

historiographer
     n : a person who is an authority on history and who studies it
         and writes about it [syn: {historian}]