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Noun: Niebuhr
  1. German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831)
    - Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Barthold George Niebuhr
     
  2. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971)
    - Reinhold Niebuhr

Type of: historian, historiographer, theologian, theologiser [Brit], theologist, theologizer

Encyclopedia: Niebuhr