1. Niebuhr - Noun
2. Niebuhr - Proper noun
German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831)
United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971)
Source: WordNetIf the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Benjamin Disraeli
According to Niebuhr, "this pestilence must have raged with incredible fury; it carried off innumerable victims. Source: Internet
Carsten Niebuhr, Reisebeschreibung von Arabien und anderen umliegenden Ländern, 2 volumes, 1774 and 1778 Niebuhr's transcriptions were used by Georg Friedrich Grotefend and others in their efforts to decipher the Old Persian cuneiform script. Source: Internet
Glimmer of a new Leviathan: Total war in the realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz (Columbia University Press, 2004), Intellectual history. Source: Internet
The Danish party sailed to Arabia via Egypt, where Niebuhr calculated the height of the Pyramids and plotted the Rosetta branch of the Nile so accurately that his plans were used more than a century later in the construction of the Suez Canal. Source: Internet
The lone surviving member of an ill-fated Danish expedition to Arabia, Carsten Niebuhr, wrote one of the earliest accounts of the two entwined trade cities—Bombay and Surat—by a western traveller. Source: Internet