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An antiquarian or antiquary is an aficionado of antiquities
Antiquities

Antiquities, nearly always used in the plural in this sense, is a term for objects from ancient history, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures....
 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
Antiquarian book trade in the United States

The antiquarian book trade in the United States is an aspect of book collecting and publishing. The term antiquarian, in general, refers to antiquities and collectible items usually considered old and rare, usually in reference to books, but is not limited to books....
". More narrowly, the term is often used for those who studied history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
 with special attention to "antiques
Antiques

An antique is an old collectible item. It is collected or desirable because of its age, rarity, condition, utility, or other unique features. It is an object that represents a previous era in human society....
", meaning ancient objects of art or science as physical traces of the past.






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An antiquarian or antiquary is an aficionado of antiquities
Antiquities

Antiquities, nearly always used in the plural in this sense, is a term for objects from ancient history, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures....
 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
Antiquarian book trade in the United States

The antiquarian book trade in the United States is an aspect of book collecting and publishing. The term antiquarian, in general, refers to antiquities and collectible items usually considered old and rare, usually in reference to books, but is not limited to books....
". More narrowly, the term is often used for those who studied history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
 with special attention to "antiques
Antiques

An antique is an old collectible item. It is collected or desirable because of its age, rarity, condition, utility, or other unique features. It is an object that represents a previous era in human society....
", meaning ancient objects of art or science as physical traces of the past. Antiquarianism is usually considered to have emerged in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 (see History of archaeology
History of archaeology

The history of archaeology has been one of increasing professionalisation, and the use of an increasing range of techniques, to obtain as much data on the site being examined as possible....
). By the 19th century, it had become transformed and bifurcated into the academic disciplines of archaeology
Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
 and philology
Philology

Philology, derived from the Greek language considers both morphology and Meaning in linguistic expression, combining linguistics and literary studies....
.

Antiquarian societies

The Society of Antiquaries of London
Society of Antiquaries of London

The Society of Antiquaries of London is the world?s premier Learned Society for heritage. It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London in the United Kingdom, along with the Royal Academy and four other leading Learned Societies; the Linnean Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Geological Society of London and the Royal Astrono...
 was formed in the 18th century to promote the study of antiquities. As early as 1572 a society had been founded by Bishop Matthew Parker
Matthew Parker

Matthew Parker was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder of Anglican theological thought....
, Sir Robert Cotton
Robert Bruce Cotton

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet was an England politician, founder of the famous Cotton library.He was of a Huntingdonshire parentage and educated at Westminster School, where he became interested in antiquarian studies under William Camden, and Jesus College, Cambridge ....
, William Camden
William Camden

William Camden was an England antiquarian and historian. He wrote the first topographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England....
 and others for the preservation of national antiquities. This body existed till 1604, when it fell under suspicion of being political in its aims, and was abolished by King James I
James I of England

James VI and I was List of monarchs of Scotland as James VI, and List of English monarchs and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Kingdom of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary I of Scotland....
. Papers read at their meetings are preserved in the Cottonian library and were printed by Thomas Hearne
Thomas Hearne

Thomas Hearn , English antiquarian, was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire....
 in 1720 under the title A Collection of Curious Discourses, a second edition appearing in 1771.

In 1707 a number of English antiquaries began to hold regular meetings for the discussion of their hobby and in 1717 the Society of Antiquaries was formally reconstituted, finally receiving a charter from King George II
George II of Great Britain

George II was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-L?neburg and Prince-elector#High Offices and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death....
 in 1751. In 1780 King George III granted the society apartments in Somerset House
Somerset House

Somerset House is a large building situated on the south side of the Strand, London in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge....
 in The Strand
Strand, London

The Strand is a street in the City of Westminster, London, England. It currently starts at Trafalgar Square and runs east to join Fleet Street at Temple Bar London, which marks the boundary of the City of London at this point, though its #History has been longer than this....
. The society was governed by a council of twenty and a president who is ex officio a trustee of the British Museum
British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than 7 million Object , are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present....
.

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body in Scotland, with its headquarters, collections, archive, and lecture theatre in the Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh....
 was founded in 1780 and had the management of a large national antiquarian museum in Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
. In Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 a society was founded in 1849 called the Kilkenny Archaeological Society, holding its meetings at Kilkenny
Kilkenny

Kilkenny, , is the county seat of County Kilkenny in Republic of Ireland. It is situated on both banks of the River Nore, at the centre of County Kilkenny in the Provinces of Ireland of Leinster in the south-east of Ireland....
. In 1869 its name was changed to the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, and in 1890 to the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is a List of Irish learned societies based in Ireland, whose aims are 'to preserve, examine and illustrate all ancient monuments and memorials of the arts, manners and customs of the past, as connected with the antiquities, language, literature and history of Ireland'....
, its office being transferred to Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
. In France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 La Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France was formed in 1814 by the reconstruction of the Acadêmie Celtique, which had existed since 1805. The American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society , located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and national research library of pre-twentieth century American History and culture....
 was founded in 1812, with its headquarters at Worcester
Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
. It had a library of upwards of 100,000 volumes and its transactions have been published bi-annually since 1820. In Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 the Gesamtverein der Deutschen Geschichts und Altertumsvereine was founded in 1852. La Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord at Copenhagen
Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
 was among the best known of European antiquarian societies.

In his essay Untimely Meditations, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th century philosophy Germans philosophy and classical philology. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism....
 examines three forms of history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
. One of these is antiquarian history, a form of history aimed at creating a feeling of connection to one's history. Nietzsche's philosophy of history
Philosophy of history

Philosophy of history is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance, if any, of human history. Furthermore, it speculates as to a possible teleology end to its development?that is, it asks if there is a design, purpose, directive principle, or finality in the processes of human history....
 had a significant impact on critical history in the 20th century.

Notable antiquarians

  • Patrick Abercromby
    Patrick Abercromby

    Patrick Abercromby , Scottish physician and antiquarian, noted for being physician to James II of England and his fervent opposition to the Acts of Union 1707 between Scotland and England....
  • Pasquale Amati
    Pasquale Amati

    Pasquale Amati was an Italian antiquary, born at Savignano di Romagna , and educated at Cesena, Rimini, and Rome. On his return to Savignano he wrote two Dissertazione to prove that the Rubicon was the river Savignano....
  • John Aubrey
    John Aubrey

    John Aubrey was an England antiquary and writer, best known as the author of the collection of short biographical pieces usually referred to as Brief Lives and as the discoverer of the Aubrey holes in Stonehenge....
  • Abd-al Latif al-Baghdadi
    Abd-el-latif

    Abd-al-latif, Abd-el-latif or Abd-ul-Latif , also known as al-Baghdadi , born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated Islamic medicine, Historiography of early Islam, Egyptologist....
  • Sir James Balfour
    James Balfour of Denmyine

    Sir James Balfour of Denmyine, 1st Baronet, of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, Scottish annalist and antiquary.He was well acquainted with Sir William Segar and with William Dugdale, to whose Monasticon he contributed....
  • Thomas Baker
    Thomas Baker (antiquarian)

    Thomas Baker , English antiquarian, was the grandson of Colonel Baker of Crook, Durham, who won fame in the English Civil War by his defence of Newcastle upon Tyne against the Scots....
  • John Bale
    John Bale

    John Bale was an England churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English , and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being dispersed....
  • John Battely
    John Battely

    'John Battely' was an English antiquary and clergyman, Archdeacon of Canterbury 1688-1708. He was the author of two antiquarian works published after his death: Antiquitates Rutupinae and Antiquitates S....
  • Ma'ad al-Mustansir Billah
  • William Bragge
    William Bragge

    William Bragge, F.S.A., F.G.S., was a civil engineer, antiquarian, and author. He established a museum and art gallery. He was notable in his day for collecting a library containing the entire literature on tobacco....
  • Thomas Browne
    Thomas Browne

    Sir Thomas Browne was an England author of varied works which disclose his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric....
  • George Buck
    George Buck

    Sir George Buck, or Buc was an antiquarian who served as Master of the Revels to King James I of England.George Buck was educated at the Middle Temple, and served on the successful C?diz expedition of 1596 under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex....
  • William Camden
    William Camden

    William Camden was an England antiquarian and historian. He wrote the first topographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England....
  • Robert Crowley
    Robert Crowley (printer)

    Robert Crowley also Robertus Croleus, Roberto Croleo, Robart Crowleye, Robarte Crole, and Crule , was a Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman who was among the Marian exiles at Frankfurt....
  • Abraham de la Pryme
    Abraham de la Pryme

    Abraham de la Pryme was an United Kingdom antiquary.Abraham de la Pryme was born to Huguenot parents, Matthias de la Pryme and Sarah Smague at Hatfield, South Yorkshire in 1671....
  • Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan
  • John Foxe
    John Foxe

    John Foxe , martyrologist, is remembered as the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, an account of Christian martyrs throughout history but especially emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I of England....
  • Richard Grafton
    Richard Grafton

    Richard Grafton , a member of the Grocers' Company, was King's Printer under Henry VIII of England and Edward VI of England. With Edward Whitchurch, a member of the Haberdashers' Company, Grafton was interested in the printing of the Bible in English, and eventually they became printers and publishers, more by chance than by design....
  • Ibn Abd-el-Hakem
    Ibn Abd-el-Hakem

    Ibn Abd-el-Hakam was an Egyptian chronicler who wrote the History of the Conquest of Egypt and North Africa and Spain.His work is invaluable as the earliest Arab account of the Islamic conquests of those countries....
  • Anthony Charles Harris
    Anthony Charles Harris

    Anthony Charles Harris was a noted collector of ancient Egyptian papyri. As antiquary, merchant, and official supplier of the army he was based in Alexandria, Egypt for the last four decades of his life....
  • Robert Stephen Hawker
    Robert Stephen Hawker

    Robert Stephen Hawker , often known as Stephen Hawker, was a Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, and reputed eccentricity ....
  • Muhammad al-Idrisi
    Muhammad al-Idrisi

    Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply El Idrisi was an Islamic geography, cartography and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II of Sicily....
  • Montague Rhodes James
  • Maurice Johnson
    Maurice Johnson

    Maurice Johnson of Spalding was a founder member of the Society of Antiquaries and a friend of William Stukeley.References...
  • Nasir Khusraw
    Nasir Khusraw

    Abu Mo?in Hamid ad-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani or Nasir Khusraw Qubadiyani [also spelled as Nasir Khusrow and Naser Khosrow] ...
  • Al-Kindi
    Al-Kindi

    , also known to the Western world by the Latinized version of his name 'Alkindus', was an Arab polymath: an Early Islamic philosophy, Islamic science, Islamic astrology, Islamic astronomy, Alchemy and chemistry in Islam, Logic in Islamic philosophy, Islamic mathematics, Arabic music, Islamic medicine, Islamic physics, Islamic psychologi...
  • John Leland
    John Leland

    John Leland was an English antiquary. He has been described as 'the father of English local history'; his Itinerary introduced the shire as the basic unit for studying the history of England—an idea that has been influential ever since....
     – appointed Royal Antiquarian to King Henry VIII
    Henry VIII of England

    Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lordship of Ireland and claimant to the Early Modern France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII of England....
  • Edward Lhuyd
    Edward Lhuyd

    Edward Lhuyd was a Wales Natural history, Botany, linguistics, geographer and antiquary.Lhuyd was born in Loppington, Shropshire, the illegitimate son of Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, Oswestry and Bridget Pryse of Llan-ffraid, near Talybont, Ceredigion, and was a pupil and later a master at Oswestry_School....
     in 1533
  • H. P. Lovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft

    Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an United States author of horror fiction, fantasy fiction, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction....
  • William Collings Lukis
    William Collings Lukis

    Rev. William Collings Lukis MA. Society of Antiquaries of London was a British antiquarian, archeologist and polymath.William Collings Lukis was the third son of Frederick Corbin Lukis,of the Colonel of Guernsey Militia....
  • Herman H. J. Lynge
    Herman H. J. Lynge

    Herman Henrik Julius Lynge was a Danish antiquarian bookseller. He continued and owned the first antiquarian bookshop in Scandinavia, now ?Herman H....
  • Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh
  • Al-Maqrizi
    Al-Maqrizi

    Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad al-Maqrizi ; Arabic Language: , was an Egyptian historian more commonly known as al-Maqrizi or Makrizi....
  • Dhul-Nun al-Misri
    Dhul-Nun al-Misri

    Dhul-Nun al-Misri was an Egyptians Sufi saint. He was considered the Patron Saint of the Physicians in the early Islamic era of Egypt, and is credited with having introduced the concept of Gnosis into Islam....
  • Philip Norman
    Philip Norman

    Philip E Norman FSA was a United Kingdom artist, author and antiquary....
  • Peregrine O'Duignan
    Peregrine O'Duignan

    Peregrine O'Duignan, was an Irish clergyman and historian, fl. 1627-1636.Born C? Coigriche mac Tuathal ? Duibhgeannain, presumably about or after 1590, his name was Latinized to Pereginus when he took holy orders in the Franciscan Order based at Leuven....
  • Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh
  • Dorning Rasbotham
    Dorning Rasbotham

    Dorning Rasbotham , was an England writer, antiquarian and artist.He was also High Sheriff of Lancashire.Dorning Rasbotham was the son of Peter and Hannah Rasbotham....
  • Fred Rosenstock
    Fred Rosenstock

    Fred Asher Rosenstock born Selig Usher Rosenstock in 1895 in Biala Potok in Galicia then a province of Austria in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains was a prominent book selling, book and art collectible and...
  • Shen Kuo
    Shen Kuo

    Shen Kuo or Shen Kua , Chinese style name Cunzhong and Chinese style name#H?o Mengqi Weng, was a polymathic China History of science and technology in China and statesman of the Song Dynasty ....
     (Chinese surname comes before given name)
  • William Forbes Skene
    William Forbes Skene

    William Forbes Skene , Scotland historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene , of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen....
  • John Stow
    John Stow

    John Stow , was an England historian and antiquarian....
  • Ahmad ibn Tulun
    Ahmad ibn Tulun

    Ahmad ibn ?ulun was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt briefly between 868 and 905 AD. Originally sent by the Abbassid caliph as governor to Egypt, ibn ?ulun established himself as an independent ruler....
  • George Vertue
    George Vertue

    File:George Vertue.pngGeorge Vertue was an England engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period....
  • Ibn Wahshiyya
    Ibn Wahshiyya

    Ibn Wahshiyah was a Nabataean Arab writer, Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam, Muslim Agricultural Revolution, Egyptology and Sociology in medieval Islam born at Qusayn near Kufa in Iraq....
  • Olaus Wormius
    Ole Worm

    Ole Worm , who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Denmark physician and antiquary....
  • Thomas Wright


See also

  • Historian
    Historian

    A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
  • Cabinet of curiousities
  • The Antiquary
    The Antiquary

    The Antiquary is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, in which one of the central characters is an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity....
     by Sir Walter Scott
    Walter Scott

    Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a prolific Scotland historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time.In some ways Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers all over Europe, Australia, and North America....


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