Antiquarian
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An antiquarian or antiquary is one concerned with antiquities or things of the past. Also, and most often in modern usage, an antiquarian is a person who deals with or collects rare and ancient "antiquarian books". More narrowly, the term is often used for those who studied history with special attention to "antiques", meaning ancient objects of art or science as physical traces of the past. Antiquarianism is usually considered to have emerged in the Middle Ages (see History of archaeology). By the 19th century, it had become transformed and bifurcated into the academic disciplines of archaeology and philology.
Notable antiquarians
- Patrick Abercromby
- Pasquale Amati
- John Aubrey
- Abd-al Latif al-Baghdadi
- Sir James Balfour
- Thomas Baker
- John Bale
- John Battely
- Ma'ad al-Mustansir Billah
- William Bragge
- Thomas Browne
- George Buck
- William Camden
- Robert Crowley
- Abraham de la Pryme
- Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan
- John Foxe
- Richard Grafton
- Ibn Abd-el-Hakem
- Anthony Charles Harris
- Robert Stephen Hawker
- Muhammad al-Idrisi
- Montague Rhodes James
- Maurice Johnson
- Nasir Khusraw
- Al-Kindi
- John Leland (antiquary) – appointed Royal Antiquarian to King Henry VIII
- Edward Lhuyd in 1533
- H. P. Lovecraft
- William Collings Lukis
- Herman H. J. Lynge
- Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh
- Al-Maqrizi
- Dhul-Nun al-Misri
- Philip Norman
- Peregrine O'Duignan
- Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh
- Dorning Rasbotham
- Fred Rosenstock
- Shen Kuo (Chinese surname comes before given name)
- William Forbes Skene
- John Stow
- Ahmad ibn Tulun
- George Vertue
- Ibn Wahshiyya
- Olaus Wormius
- Thomas Wright
See also
- Historian
- Cabinet of curiosities
- The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott
- Nomenclature
- British antiquarian societies
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