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Reinhold Niebuhr

Reinhold NiebuhrAKA Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr

Born: 21-Jun-1892
Birthplace: Wright City, MO
Died: 1-Jun-1971
Location of death: Stockbridge, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, MA

Gender: Male
Religion: Protestant
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Religion

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Prominent historical/political theologian

Father: Gustav (pastor)
Mother: Lydia Hosto
Brother: Helmut Richard Niebuhr
Wife: Ursula Keppel-Compton (m. 22-Dec-1931)

    University: Elmhurst College (1910)
    Theological: Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Grove, MO (1913)
    Theological: BD and MA, Yale Divinity School

    German Ancestry
    Americans for Democratic Action
    Presidential Medal of Freedom 1964

Is the subject of books:
Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophet to Politicians, 1981, BY: Ronald H. Stone

Author of books:
Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932, religion)
The Nature and Destiny of Man (1943, religion)
Faith and History (1949, religion)
The Irony of American History (1952, nonfiction)
An Interpretation of Christian Ethics (1956, religion)


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