Sentence examples for historiographer from inspiring English sources
noun
A scholar who studies historiography
He was appointed royal historiographer in 1771.
He was appointed historiographer to Louis XIV by the king's principal minister, Jules Mazarin, in 1646.
Jean Racine, in full Jean-Baptiste Racine (baptized December 22, 1639, La Ferté-Milon Ferté-Milond April 21, 1699, Paris) France diedApril 21 , 1699istoriograParisrenowned Frenchs mastery of French classical tragedramatic
Historical writing flourished, the most outstanding works being those of two Benedictine brothers, Bernard and Hieronymus Pez; Gottfried Bessel, abbot of Göttweig; and Leopold I's official historiographer, the Jesuit Franz Wagner.
He accepted the office of historiographer of Venice in 1529 and began writing a history of that city; he was also appointed librarian of St. Mark's Cathedral.
There, too, he was used on secret and diplomatic missions, and in 1455 he was also appointed Burgundian historiographer.
No personal documents have survived from Sargon's reign; but it seems fair to assume that phraseologies uncommon in the inscriptions of other Assyrian kings, found in his texts, must have met with his approval, even though it is uncertain whether such phrases sometimes turning into what is obviously poetry were in fact conceived by Sargon himself or ascribed to him by his historiographers.
In his role as chronicler, Froissart was followed by Georges Chastellain, Olivier de La Marche, and Jean Molinet, historiographers of the Burgundian court who became known as the grands rhétoriqueurs.
November 14 , 1925Tbilisi, Georgia Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev, (born November 14 , 1925 Tbilisi, Georgia, U.S.S.R. [now in Georgia]), Soviet historian and dissident who was one of his country's foremost historiographers in the late 20th century.
Historiography was at its height with the humanist historiographers of 17th-century Moldavia, whose leader was Miron Costin.
Furthermore, he touched upon dynasties never before dealt with by Islāmic historiographers, such as the Babylonians, the Seleucids, and the Assyrians.
