logographer

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In anc. Gr. lit., a prose-writer; especially, a historian. Under the name of logographers are commonly classed the early Greek historians before Herodotus. This school of writers began with Cadmus of Miletus, about 550 b. c., and continued for over a century. They wrote in the Ionic dialect, and most of them were Ionians by birth.
2. n. One who is skilled in logography.

Wiktionary

1. n. a chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences
2. n. one skilled in logography

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.
2. n. One skilled in logography.