Antiquarian - Definition and Overview

An antiquarian is one concerned with antiquities or things of the past. More narrowly, the term is often used for those who studied (usually local) history with special attention to the physical traces of the past. Antiquarianism is usually considered to have emerged in the sixteenth century; by the nineteenth century it had become transformed into the academic discipline of archaeology.

Some antiquarians

• Patrick Abercromby
• Elias Ashmole
• John Aubrey
• Sir James Balfour
• Thomas Baker
• George Buck
• William Camden
• Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan
• Robert Stephen Hawker
• John Leland - to king Henry VIII. He was appointed Royal Antiquarian in 1533
• Edward Lhuyd
• Dorning Rasbotham
• Fred Rosenstock
• William Forbes Skene
• George Vertue
• Olaus Wormius
• Thomas Wright

See also

• Historian
• Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott