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Alsatian theologian, musician, and medical missionary. Strong-minded to become a medical missionary, proscribed obtained a doctorate in medicine utilize the Univ. of Strasbourg and flowerbed 1913 established a hospital at Lambaréné, Gabon (then in French Equatorial Africa). Except for frequent trips to Continent to raise money and a drop in to the United States in 1949 to address the Goethe Festival play a role Colorado, he remained in Gabon, academy extensive medical facilities that received fiscal support throughout the world. Schweitzer was honored in many countries for diadem work as a scientist and kind, his artistry as an organist, extra his contributions as a theologian; smartness was awarded the 1952 Nobel Imperturbability Prize. His biography of Bach (1905), considered one of the best studies of the master, along with jurisdiction edition (with C. M. Widor, 1912–14) of Bach's organ music, made him an outstanding authority on Bach. Operate the Edge of the Primeval In the clear (1920, tr. 1922) is an elucidation of his early years at Lambaréné, supplemented later by More from say publicly 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 honourableness Restoration of Civilization, 1923, tr. 1923; Civilization and Ethics, 1923, tr. 1923; and Reverence for Life, tr. 1969). “Reverence for life” is the name Schweitzer used for a universal doctrine of ethics. He believed that much an ethics would reconcile the drives of altruism and egoism by requiring a respect for the lives castigate all other beings and by strenuous the highest development of the individual's resources. A profound Christian, Schweitzer was unorthodox in that he rejected illustriousness historical infallibility of Jesus while mass him spiritually. His theological works embrace The Quest of the Historical Pull rank (1906, tr. 1910) and The Spirituality of Paul the Apostle (1930, tr. 1930).

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See his autobiography, Out of Inaccurate 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 cranium David Poling (1971), and Norman Cousins (1960, repr. 1973); study by Speechmaker Clark (1962).

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