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- As a journalist and author, R. Gustav Niebuhr changed the coverage of religion in the United States by reporting on stories that showed how people’s faiths contributed to shaping their political and civic activities and beliefs.
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Jul 28, 2009 · An updated obituary, “Rev. Gustav Niebuhr was Taken Suddenly”, obviously clipped from the Lincoln, Illinois, paper at the time of his death, refers to Niebuhr's having been “transferred” to Wright City from California.
The pastor preached to a congrega- tion of one, a young farmhand who alone had braved the morning blizzard. That farmhand was Gustav Niebuhr.5. Gustav Niebuhr was born to a family which owned a large estate in Lage, Province of Lippe Detmold, Germany, on 23 January 1863. He attended the.
Nov 16, 2023 · LOUISVILLE — R. Gustav Niebuhr, a pioneering Presbyterian journalist and scholar whose many awards included the 2000 David Steele Distinguished Writer Award from the Presbyterian Writers Guild, died Oct. 20 at age 68 from long-term complications from Parkinson’s Disease.
Feb 10, 2021 · Gustav Niebuhr arrived from Germany in 1881 at the age of eighteen, and in 1885 was ordained in the German Evangelical Synod of North America, a small, German-speaking denomination. Sent first to New Orleans and then to northern California, Gustav met and married Lydia Hosto, a missionary’s daughter.
Nov 10, 2023 · (RNS) — Richard Gustav Niebuhr, an influential award-winning national journalist turned college professor who covered religion for The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times,...
Nov 10, 2023 · As a journalist and author, R. Gustav Niebuhr changed the coverage of religion in the United States by reporting on stories that showed how people’s faiths contributed to shaping their political and civic activities and beliefs.
Apr 14, 2010 · Gustav Niebuhr comes from a family of prominent theologians. But when Gustav started his journalism career three decades ago, the 2010 winner of the William A. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award never imagined he’d report on religion for several of America’s leading newspapers.
