A historian is a person who researches, studies, and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.[1]
Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and
research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the
study of all history in time. If the individual is concerned with events
preceding written history, the individual is a historian of prehistory.
Although "historian" can be used to describe amateur and professional
historians alike, it is reserved more recently for those who have
acquired graduate degrees in the discipline. Some historians, though, are recognized by publications or training and experience.[2]
"Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth
century as research universities were emerging in Germany and elsewhere
