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The theologian, musician, philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning physician
Albert Schweitzer is born on this day in 1875 in Upper-Alsace, Germany
(now Haut-Rhin, France).
The son and grandson of ministers, Schweitzer studied theology and
philosophy at the universities of Strasbourg, Paris and Berlin. After
working as a pastor, he entered medical school in 1905 with the dream of
becoming a missionary in Africa. Schweitzer was also an acclaimed
concert organist who played professional engagements to earn money for
his education. By the time he received his M.D. in 1913, the
overachieving Schweitzer had published several books, including the
influential The Quest for the Historical Jesus and a book on the
composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Medical degree in hand, Schweitzer and his wife, Helene Bresslau, moved
to French Equatorial Africa where he founded a hospital at Lambarene
(modern-day Gabon). When World War I broke out, the German-born
Schweitzers were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war.
Released in 1918, they returned to Lambarene in 1924. Over the next
three decades, Schweitzer made frequent visits to Europe to lecture on
culture and ethics. His philosophy revolved around the concept of what
he called “reverence for lifeö–the idea that all life must be respected
and loved, and that humans should enter into a personal, spiritual
relationship with the universe and all its creations. This reverence for
life, according to Schweitzer, would naturally lead humans to live a
life of service to others.
Schweitzer won widespread praise for putting his uplifting theory into
practice at his hospital in Africa, where he treated many patients with
leprosy and the dreaded African sleeping sickness. Awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize for 1952, Schweitzer used his $33,000 award to start a
leprosarium at Lambarene. From the early 1950s until his death in 1965,
Schweitzer spoke and wrote tirelessly about his opposition to nuclear
tests and nuclear weapons, adding his voice to those of fellow Nobelists
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell.
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