"Unity in essentials, liberty in the rest, and brotherly love." Barthold George Niebuhr, Letter to Madame Hensler (March 27, 1818)* I the other day quoted the early-nineteenth-century German historian Barthold George Niebuhr and have since burrowe… Read on blog or Reader The Orthosphere Read on blog or Reader Seek Not the Grounds of Division By JMSmith on July 26, 2024  "Unity in essentials, liberty in the rest, and brotherly love." Barthold George Niebuhr, Letter to Madame Hensler (March 27, 1818)* I the other day quoted the early-nineteenth-century German historian Barthold George Niebuhr and have since burrowed more deeply into the correspondence of this interesting and attractive man.  Niebuhr (1776-1831) is today remembered as the author of The Roman History (three vols., 1811-1832),  as well as of various important advances in the historian's craft, but there was naturally much more to the man than this.  Niebuhr was the Prussian ambassador to Rome, a German nationalist, a counter-revolutionary, and a Christian. Continue reading Comment Like You can also reply to this email to leave a comment.

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