While at Union, Buechner studied under such renowned theologians as Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, and James Muilenberg, who helped Buechner in his search for understanding:

After school in Hameln and Hanover, Thibaut entered the University of Göttingen as a student of jurisprudence, went from there to Königsberg, where he studied under Immanuel Kant, and afterwards to the University of Kiel, where he was a fellow-student with Niebuhr.

The traditional chronology, as codified by Varro, allots 243 years for their reigns, an average of almost 35 years, which, since the work of Barthold Georg Niebuhr, has been generally discounted by modern scholarship.

Carsten Niebuhr proposed that the name Rhea Silvia came from Rea, meaning guilty, and Silvia meaning of the forest and so assumed that Rhea Silvia was a generic name for the guilty woman of the forest, i. e. the woman who had been seduced there.

Enlightenment theologians ( culminating perhaps in Brunner and Niebuhr in the twentieth century ) sought for figurative interpretations because they had already dismissed the historical possibility of the story.

Michaelis, he was compensated for this by the esteem of Frederick the Great, of Lessing, Carsten Niebuhr, and many foreign scholars.

To his Frankfurt period belong the editions of Pausanias, Herodotus, Dionysius Halicarnassensis ( one of his best pieces of work, highly praised by Carsten Niebuhr ), Aristotle, the Greek and Latin sources for the history of the Roman emperors and the Peri syntaxeos of Apollonius Dyscolus.

Carsten Niebuhr or Karsten Niebuhr ( March 17, 1733 Lüdingworth – April 26, 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen ) a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark, is renowned for his travels on the Arabian peninsula.

Niebuhr married in 1773, and for some years held a post in the Danish military service, which enabled him to remain in Copenhagen.

** Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Life at Kiel ( 1817 ); an English version was issued in 1838 in the Lives of Eminent Men, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, for example, commented on the necessity of coercion in preserving the course of justice by warning, " Moral reason must learn how to make coercion its ally without running the risk of a Pyrrhic victory in which the ally exploits and negates the triumph.

She met Niebuhr while studying for her masters degree at Union Theological Seminary.

Niebuhr repeatedly stressed the need to be loyal to America, and won an audience in national magazines for his appeals to the German Americans to be patriotic.

Influenced strongly by Karl Barth and other dialectical theologians of Europe, he began to emphasize the Bible as a human record of divine self-revelation ; it offered for Niebuhr a critical but redemptive reorientation of the understanding of man's nature and destiny.

Niebuhr began to distance himself from the pacifism of his more liberal colleagues and became a staunch advocate for the war.

Niebuhr supported the Allies during World War II and argued for the engagement of the United States in the war.

But very few of those whom I have called " atheists for Niebuhr " follow this inverted logic to its conclusion: they don't move from praise of Niebuhr's theory of human nature to praise of its theological ground.

In 1947, Niebuhr helped found the liberal Americans for Democratic Action ( ADA ).

In his last cover story for Time magazine ( March 1948 ), Whittaker Chambers said of Niebuhr:

Niebuhr attributed the injustices of society to human pride and self-love and believed that this innate propensity for evil could not be controlled by humanity.

Yet even Dr. Niebuhr added at least a touch of doubt to his claim when he told one interviewer, ' Of course, it may have been spooking around for years, even centuries, but I don't think so.

Passion for Justice: Retrieving the Legacies of Walter Rauschenbusch, John A. Ryan, and Reinhold Niebuhr.

As secretary to Niebuhr, Bunsen was brought into contact with the Vatican movement for the establishment of the papal church in the Prussian dominions, to provide for the largely increased Catholic population.

Niebuhr attended Yale Divinity School, where he earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1914 and a Master of Arts degree the following year.

On Michaelis ' recommendation, and with Linnaeus's approval, Forsskål the next year ( 1760 ) was appointed by king Frederick V of Denmark to join, amongst others, the orientalist and mathematician Carsten Niebuhr on an expedition to Arabia.

He fought briefly in the Greek War of Independence, and then spent one year, 1822 – 1823, in Rome in the family of the historian Niebuhr, then Prussian ambassador, as tutor to his son.

There he wrote a collection of poems entitled Wein-und Wonne-Lieder ( Songs of wine and bliss ), which on his release, through the influence of Niebuhr, were published in Berlin in 1824 under the pen name of “ Franz Arnold .” He fled to England in 1825, and supported himself for a year in London, giving lessons and contributing to German periodicals.

The Niebuhr brothers were Reinhold Niebuhr and H. Richard Niebuhr, two American Christian scholars active in the first half of the 20th century.

In 2008, Yale Book of Quotations editor Fred R. Shapiro published evidence showing that versions of the Serenity Prayer were in use as early as 1936, years before the first known attribution to Niebuhr.

Mainline churches were basically pacifistic before 1940, but under the influence of people such as Reinhold Niebuhr they supported World War II and the Cold War.

In geography he found a field hardly touched since Samuel Bochart, in whose footsteps he followed in the Spicilegium geographiae hebraeorum exterae post Bochartum ( 1769 – 1780 ); and to his impulse we owe the famous Royal Danish expedition to Arabia Felix ( Yemen ) conducted by Carsten Niebuhr and Peter Forsskål.

In 1760 one of his instructors suggested that Niebuhr join a scientific expedition being mounted by Frederick V of Denmark to Egypt, Arabia and Syria.

Proceeding to Suez, from where Niebuhr made a visit to Mount Sinai, in October 1762 the expedition sailed to Jeddah, and then journeyed overland to Mocha.

His companion Niebuhr, who was the only one of the participants to survive the expedition, was entrusted with the care of editing his manuscripts, and published in 1775 Descriptiones Animalium-Avium, amphiborum, insectorum, vermium quæ in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål.

In 1978 Ross T. Christensen noted the existence of a location in Yemen called " Nehhm " on an early map produced by Carsten Niebuhr as the result of a scientific expedition sent out by King Frederick V of Denmark.

In the 1930s, he served on The American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, commonly known as the " Dewey Commission ," with other notable figures such as Sidney Hook, Reinhold Niebuhr, Norman Thomas, Edmund Wilson and chairman John Dewey which had been set up following the first of the Moscow " Show Trials " in 1936.

* 1938 – 40 Reinhold Niebuhr The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation, ( 2 vol set ): ISBN 0-664-25709-7

However at least as early as 1810, when B. G. Niebuhr pointed out that these excerpts were from a speech, and not part of the narrative of his book, this theory has been recognized as conflicting with other known historical facts.

Bancroft capped off his education with a European tour, in the course of which he sought out almost every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and Alessandro Manzoni.

A further tradition stated that Cassius was condemned and his sentence carried out by his own father, although Niebuhr argues that it was impossible that a man who had been thrice consul and twice triumphed should still be in his father's power.

In the 1930s Niebuhr worked out many of his ideas about sin and grace, love and justice, faith and reason, realism and idealism, and the irony and tragedy of history, which established his leadership of the neo-orthodox movement in theology.

During the 1920s, Niebuhr spoke out against the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Detroit, which had recruited many members threatened by the rapid social changes.

Two years later, Niebuhr defended King ’ s decision to speak out against the Vietnam War, calling him ‘‘ one of the greatest religious leaders of our time .’’ Niebuhr asserted: ‘‘ Dr.

At the close of 1815 he went to Berlin, to show Niebuhr the plan of research which he had mapped out.

As early as the turn of the 19th century, the German historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr pointed out the historical untrustworthiness and contradictions in this tale.