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Inspiring selections on Knowledge and Discovery, Reverence for Life, Faith, The Life of the Soul and Civilization and Peace.
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Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875-September 4, 1965) was born into an Alsatian family which for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and education. His father and maternal grandfather were ministers; both of his grandfathers were talented organists; many of his relatives were persons of scholarly attainments.Schweitzer entered into his intensive theological studies in 1893 at the University of Strasbourg where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1899, with a dissertation on the religious philosophy of Kant, and received his licentiate in theology in 1900. He began preaching at St. Nicholas Church in Strasbourg in 1899.Meanwhile he continued with a distinguished musical career initiated at an early age with piano and organ lessons. Only nine when he first performed in his father's church, he was, from his young manhood to his middle eighties, recognized as a concert organist, internationally known. Having decided to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a pastor, Schweitzer in 1905 began the study of medicine at the University of Strasbourg. In 1913, having obtained his M.D. degree, he founded his hospital at Lambarene in French Equatorial Africa, but in 1917 he and his wife were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war.
Schweitzer returned to Lambarene in 1924 and except for relatively short periods of time, spent the remainder of his life there. At Lambarene, Schweitzer was doctor and surgeon in the hospital, pastor of a congregation, administrator of a village, superintendent of buildings and grounds, writer of scholarly books, commentator on contemporary history, musician, host to countless visitors.Albert Schweitzer died on September 4, 1965, and was buried at Lambarene.About the Author
Norman Cousins was the author of Head First: The Biology of Hope, Anatomy of an Illness, The Healing Heart, Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene, and many other books. He maintained a close correspondence with Schweitzer until the spiritual leader's death in 1965 and was chairman of the board of directors of the Albert Schweitzer Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
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- PublisherNewmarket Press,U.S.
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1557042918
- ISBN 13 9781557042910
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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