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Reinhold Niebuhr

1892 - 1971

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Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. A public theologian, he wrote and spoke frequently about the intersection of religion, politics, and public policy, with his most influential books including Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man. Starting as a minister with working-class sympathies in the 1920s and sharing with many other ministers a commitment to pacifism and socialism, his thinking evolved during the 1930s to neo-orthodox realist theology as he developed the philosophical perspective known as Christian realism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Reinhold Niebuhr is the 666th most popular philosopher (down from 616th in 2019), the 2,700th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,056th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Reinhold Niebuhr ranks 666 out of 1,267. Before him are Ravidas, Johannes Sturm, Nezahualcoyotl, Michael Walzer, Gorakhnath, and Ernst Nolte. After him are Liu Bowen, Frithjof Schuon, Shen Buhai, Diogenes of Oenoanda, Hippo, and Ian Stevenson.

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Among people born in 1892, Reinhold Niebuhr ranks 95. Before him are Basil Rathbone, Dietrich von Saucken, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Erich Brandenberger, Takeo Takagi, and Richard Neutra. After him are Radola Gajda, Robert Watson-Watt, Herman Potočnik, Agnes Smedley, Ivan Šubašić, and Joseph Szigeti. Among people deceased in 1971, Reinhold Niebuhr ranks 62. Before him are Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, Philippe Thys, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, Vladislav Volkov, Jo Siffert, and Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Shunryū Suzuki, T. V. Soong, Paul Lukas, Viktor Patsayev, Margaret Bourke-White, and Gene Vincent.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Reinhold Niebuhr ranks 2,700 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Desmond (1924), J. Allen Hynek (1910), Dean Smith (1931), Chazz Palminteri (1952), Stella Adler (1901), and Arthur D. Levinson (1950). After him are Nicholas Murray Butler (1862), Paris Hilton (1981), Kamehameha II (1797), Red Buttons (1919), Judd Hirsch (1935), and Buddy Rich (1917).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Reinhold Niebuhr ranks 27. Before him are Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Nancy Fraser (1947), Tom Regan (1938), Jonathan Edwards (1703), Arthur Danto (1924), and Michael Walzer (1935). After him are C. I. Lewis (1883), Mary Parker Follett (1868), Alvin Plantinga (1932), Jerry Fodor (1935), Mortimer J. Adler (1902), and William Heard Kilpatrick (1871).

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