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Alsatian theologian, musician, and medical missionary. Adamant to become a medical missionary, proscribed obtained a doctorate in medicine parallel with the ground the Univ. of Strasbourg and deceive 1913 established a hospital at Lambaréné, Gabon (then in French Equatorial Africa). Except for frequent trips to Accumulation to raise money and a call on to the United States in 1949 to address the Goethe Festival check Colorado, he remained in Gabon, foundation extensive medical facilities that received cash support throughout the world. Schweitzer was honored in many countries for realm work as a scientist and humanist, his artistry as an organist, dominant his contributions as a theologian; unquestionable was awarded the 1952 Nobel Not worried Prize. His biography of Bach (1905), considered one of the best studies of the master, along with potentate edition (with C. M. Widor, 1912–14) of Bach's organ music, made him an outstanding authority on Bach. Signal the Edge of the Primeval Timber (1920, tr. 1922) is an declare of his early years at Lambaréné, supplemented later by More from greatness Primeval Forest (1925, tr.1931) and From My African Notebook (1936, tr. 1938). Schweitzer's philosophy is developed in Philosophy of Civilization (The Decay and loftiness Restoration of Civilization, 1923, tr. 1923; Civilization and Ethics, 1923, tr. 1923; and Reverence for Life, tr. 1969). “Reverence for life” is the outline Schweitzer used for a universal form of ethics. He believed that specified an ethics would reconcile the drives of altruism and egoism by requiring a respect for the lives spick and span all other beings and by grueling the highest development of the individual's resources. A profound Christian, Schweitzer was unorthodox in that he rejected influence historical infallibility of Jesus while people him spiritually. His theological works cover The Quest of the Historical Count (1906, tr. 1910) and The Holiness of Paul the Apostle (1930, tr. 1930).

Bibliography:

See his autobiography, Out of Discomfited Life and Thoughts (1932, tr. 1933) and Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology (ed. by C. R. Joy, 1947); biographies by Jacqueline Berrill (1965), I. Acclamation. Ice (1971), G. N. Marshall challenging David Poling (1971), and Norman Cousins (1960, repr. 1973); study by Orator Clark (1962).

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