Albert Schweitzer, OM, (January 14, 1875 – September 4, 1965) was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was natural within Kaysersberg, Upper-Alsace, Germany (now Haut-Rhin département, France). He received a 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.

Theology
As a immature theologizer his foremost major act, by which he gained a great reputation, was A Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906), where he interpreted a life of Jesus Christ in the weak of Jesus' have eschatological convictions. He established his reputation farther as a New Testament scholar by other theological studies, rather A Mysticism of Paul a Apostle (1930). Around these studies he examined a eschatological beliefs of Paul & across this a message of the Up to date Testament.

Music
Albert Schweitzer was the famed organist within his day, & was extremely interested in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He developed the elementary style of performance, which he thought to become nigher to what Bach experienced intended it to become. He depending his interpretatiin in the main on his reappraisal of Bach's religious intentions. Through the book Johann Sebastian Bach, a final version of which he completed around 1908, he advocated this new style, which has experienced nifty influence in the way Bach's music is existence treated. Albert Schweitzer was as well the notable organ constructor. Recordings of Schweitzer swimming a music of Bach come available in Videos.

Philosophy
Schweitzer's worldview was according to his idea of Reverence for Life, which he believed to become his greatest lone contribution to human beings. His review was that Western culture was within decompose because of bit by bit abandoning its honourable foundations - people of affirmation of life.

It was his unwaveringly conviction that a respect for life is the greatest principle. Around the similar kinda exaltation of life thereto of Friedrich Nietzsche, a recently influential philosopher of a instance, Schweitzer avowedly followed the equivalent line when that of the Russian Leo Tolstoy. A select few humans around his times likened his philosophy therewith of Francis of Assisi, a comparison he did non object to. Around his Philosophy of Civilisation (100% quotes therein part from either Chapter 26 of the equivalent book), he wrote:

Admittedly philosophy must begin from either a virtually all quick & comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'We are life that wants to survive, in the middle of life that wants to survive'.

Life & love around his review come according to, & watch away from a equivalent principle: respect for each manifestation of Life, & a individual, spiritual relationship towards the universe. Ethics, based on data from Schweitzer, consists in the compulsion to show to a might-to-survive of each & every existence the equivalent reverence when a single does to 1's have. Inside circumstances in which you apparently fail to satisfy this compulsion should non lead u.s.the. to defeatism, since the might-to-survive renews itself again & again, as an effect of an evolutionary necessity & a phenomenon using a spiritual dimension.

But, when Schweitzer himself pointed retired, these are neither impossible nor hard to spend a life of non as a consequence it: the history of globe philosophies & religions clearly shows several cases of denial of the principle of reverence for life. He points to a prevailing philosophy in the European middle ages, & the Indian Brahminic philosophy. Even so, this kinda attitude lacks inside genuineness.

Since i enter a world, it offers u.s.the. a atrocious drama: it consists in the fact that the might to survive, seemed as a total of all the single wills, is divided against itself. 1 being is antagonised against a second, a single destroys a second. Exclusively in a thought process existence has the may to survive get conscious of more might to survive, & desirious of solidarity by having it. This solidarity, nevertheless, just can't become caused, because individual life doesn't escape a puzzling & horrifying circumstance that it must survive at a dollars and cents of more life. However when an ethical existence of these strives to escape when conceivable from either this necessity, & to put the prevent to this disunion of the Might to survive, and so far as these are in 1's power.

Schweitzer advocated a conception of reverence for life widely throughout his entire life. A historical Enlightenment waned & corrupted itself, Schweitzer held, because it has non been swell sufficiency grounded around thought, however obsessionally followed a honorable may-to survive. Hence, he surfed send on to the renewed & extrthe profound Rennaisance & Enlightenment of humanity (a see he expressed in the Epilogue of his Away from Our Life & Thought). Albert Schweitzer nourished hope inside the mankind that is other deeply caring of its position in the Universe. His optimism was depending within "belief in truth". "The spirit generated by [conceiving of] truth is greater than the force of circumstances." He persistently emphasized a necessity to believe, like than only acting in basis of passing impulses or even by as a result a virtually all far flung opinions.

Never for the moment run you save my mistrust of the ideals established by society, & of the convictions which are then saved by it inside circulation. I universally underst& that society is good of folly and might deceive america in the matter of humanity. [...] humanity meaning consideration for a being & the happiness of single man beings.

Schweitzer was a great deal respected for putting his theory into practice within his have life.

Schweitzer died withwithin Gabon, Africa when years of serving others as a dr. in Africa.

Stance on racial relations

Schweitzer considered his function as a medical missionary within Africa to exist as his response to Jesus' call for to turn into "fishers of men" however likewise as a small recompense for the historic guilt of European coloniser: "Who can describe the injustice and cruelties that in the course of centuries they [the coloured peoples] have suffered at the hands of Europeans? . . . If a record could be compiled of all that has happened between the white and the coloured races, it would make a book containing numbers of pages which the reader would have to turn over unread because their contents would be too horrible." [On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, p. 115].

Schweitzer was another time accused of existence paternalistic or even colonialist within his attitude towards Africans. For even example, he thought Gabonese independence come as well early, forswearing adequate education or accommodation to local circumstances. Edgar Berman quotes Schweitzer speaking these lines inside 1960: "No society can go from the primeval directly to an industrial state without losing the leavening that time and an agricultural period allow." [In Africa With Schweitzer, p. 139].

There is a blatantly racist quote periodically attributed to Schweitzer to the burden that Africans come an "inferior race" & must non exist when treated as a compeer of Whites. This quote occurs as fabrication; it doesn't come out inside Schweitzer's writings & doesn't reflect his respect for the African humans he spent 60 years working for & by owning.

Medicine
Albert Schweitzer spent virtually all of his life inside Lambaréné inside what is nowadays Gabon, Africa. Fallowing his medical studies within 1913, he went there with his married woman to establish the hospital touching an already existent mission post. He treated & operated in literally hundreds to thousands of population. He took care of hundreds of lepers & treated numbers of hikers of the African sleeping sickness.

Inside 1914 World War I began & because he was the German in French territory, Schweitzer & his married woman were taken captive and temporarily confined to their home. Inside 1917 they were interned around Garaison, France, & in 1918 in Saint Remy de Provence. There he exposed & wrote as far as possible around preparation for among others his illustrious book Culture & Ethics (published inside 1923). Around July 1918 he was the loose human once more, & when working as a medical assistant & assistant-pastor around Strasbourg, he was able to finish a book. Meanwhile he began to speak & lecture just about his ideas wherever he was invited. Nin just did he need his philosophy on culture and ethics to become widely knhave, it as well served as a means to raise money for the hospital around Lambaréné, for which he experienced already emptied his own pockets.

Around 1924 he returned to Lambaréné, where he managed to rebuild a rotted hospital, fallowing which he resumed his medical practices. Presently he was there are no elongated a lone medical doctor in the hospital, & anytime imaginable he attend Europe to lecture at universities. Bit by bit his opinions & conception became acknowledged, non just around Europe, however worldwide.

Later life
From either 1939-1948 he stayed within Lambaréné, unable to last back to the Europe in war. 3 years when a prevent of World War II, around 1948, he returned first to Europe & saved travelling back & forth (& another time to the United states) when yearn when he may until his demise in 1965.

From either 1952 until his dying he fought together by owning Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell against nuclear tests and bombs. Around 1957 & 1958 he held quatern speeches on top Radio Oslo which were published around Peace or even Atomic War.

He died on the 4th of September, 1965 within Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon).

Selected bibliography
A Decompose & a Restoration of Civilization (1923) Civilization & Ethics (1923) Indian Thought & Its Development (1935) A Kingdom of God & Primitive Christianity (publ.1967) Our Life & Thought (1931) (autobiography. based on data from a foreword of the reviewed edition: Henry Holt & Company, 1991, Schweitzer personally considered to exist as his first book) Peace or even Atomlike War 1958 Away from Our Life & Thought: An Autobiography by Albert Schweitzer ISBN 0801860970 The Quest Of The Historical Jesus; A Critical Learn Of Its Progress From either Reimarus To Wrede

Timeline
1893 - Studied Philosophy and Theology at the Universities of Strassburg, Berlin and Paris 1900 - Curate of the Church of St. Nicolas around Strassburg 1901 - Principal of the Theological Seminary in Strassburg 1905-1913 Studied medicine and surgery 1912 - Married Helene Bresslau 1913 - Physician in Lambaréné, Africa 1915 - Developed his ethic Reverence for life 1917 - Interned in France 1918 - Medical assistant & assistant-pastor within Strassburg 1919 - First major speech just about Reverence for life at a University of Uppsala, Sweden 1919 - Birth of daughter, Rhena 1924 - Return to Lambaréné when md; frequent visits to Europe for speaking engagements 1939-1948 Lambaréné 1949 - Visit to the USA 1948-1965 - Lambaréné and Europe. 1953 - Nobel Peace Prize for the year 1952 1957 - 1958 - Four speeches against nuclear armament & tests