annalist vs historian

annalist and historian both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
annalist	Yes	No	No	No
historian	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, historian is a hypernym of annalist; that is, historian is a word with a broader meaning than annalist:

annalist: a historian who writes annals
historian: a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

Other hypernyms of annalist include historiographer.

annalist (noun)	historian (noun)
a historian who writes annals	a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it