Published in 1910, it at once established Schweitzer as an eminent, if controversial, theologian whose explosive ideas During his compulsory military service in 1894, Schweitzer had an epiphany of sorts while reading the Book of Matthew, Chapters 10 and 11 (in Greek, no less). (Revelation 22:20). On one occasion a group of tourists pulled him away from the dinner table to get an explanation of his ethics. Actually, Schweitzer preferred (and planned) it in this fashion on the ground that the natives would shun an elaborate, shiny and impersonal institution. In 1924, Schweitzer returned without his wife, with an Oxford undergraduate Noel Gillespie as his assistant. 8 Department of Cardiology II -Electrophysiology; University of Mnster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Gebude A1, D-48149 Mnster, Germany. In 2016, he may be a somewhat forgotten, or even a controversial, figure but a half a century or more ago, the mere mention of the name Schweitzer instantly conjured up images of selflessness, heroism and the very model of a modern, humane physician. 3 in A minor. Schweitzer's ethical system, elucidated at length in "The Philosophy of Civilization," is boundless in its domain and in its demands. After briefly occupying a shed formerly used as a chicken hut, in late 1913 they built their first hospital of corrugated iron, with a consulting room and operating theatre and with a dispensary and sterilising room. He fell ill from exhaustion on Aug. 28 and his condition worsened steadily. After peaking in the mid-1960s, the number of heart disease deaths began a marked decline that has persisted to the present. In 1955, he was made an honorary member of the Order of Merit (OM) by Queen Elizabeth II. 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. He was elected to the French Academy in 1951. Then, working as medical assistant and assistant-pastor in Strasbourg, he advanced his project on the philosophy of civilization, which had occupied his mind since 1900. Schweitzer's accomplishments are recognized even by his most caustic critics. Meantime, as these beliefs were maturing in Schweitzer's mind, he continued his student life at Strasbourg and fixed with great precision the course of his future. The tourists got the point and he returned to his meal. ~ Albert Schweitzer. Schweitzer, who insisted that the score should show Bach's notation with no additional markings, wrote the commentaries for the Preludes and Fugues, and Widor those for the Sonatas and Concertos: six volumes were published in 191214. Although Schweitzer's views on Africa were out of date, he did what no man had done before him--he healed thousands and he welded world attention on Africa's many plights. In this respect, he was undoubtedly made more of by cultists than he was willing to make of himself, although he was by no means a man with a weak ego. Hailed as an outstanding world figure, Schweitzer was. [judecat de valoare] n 1952 a primit Premiul Nobel pentru Pace . "I feel at home here. "Anyone can rescue his human life," he once said, "who seizes every opportunity of being a man by means of personal action, however unpretending, But determination to make his life an "argument" Thank you. music. But how are we of the post-colonial age to understand a man who was born in 1875 and saw the world very differently from the way we do? Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer OM (German: [albt vats] (); 14 January 1875 - 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian polymath.He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. In the Preface to Civilization and Ethics (1923) he argued that Western philosophy from Descartes to Kant had set out to explain the objective world expecting that humanity would be found to have a special meaning within it. His death was attributed to circulatory trouble brought on by his advanced age. which the chorale itself came. He died at 11:30 P.M. (6:30 P.M. New York time). [11] Schweitzer served his one-year compulsory military service in 1894. As a boy, Albert was frail in health but robust in intellect and talent. For example, in 1950, biographer Magnus C. Ratter commented that Schweitzer never "commit[ted] himself to the anti-vivisection, vegetarian, or pacifist positions, though his thought leads in this direction". at the drop of a cause. ". Similarly, in 1st Peter 1:20, "Christ, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you", as well as "But the end of all things is at hand" (1 Peter 4:7) and "Surely, I come quickly." He was buried at his hospital, later named Albert Schweitzer Hospital. In addition to injuries, he was often treating severe sandflea and crawcraw infections, yaws, tropical eating sores, heart disease, tropical dysentery, tropical malaria, sleeping sickness, leprosy, fevers, strangulated hernias, necrosis, abdominal tumours and chronic constipation and nicotine poisoning, while also attempting to deal with deliberate poisonings, fetishism and fear of cannibalism among the Mbahouin. Schweitzer claims that this form of mysticism is more intellectual and can be found "among the Brahmans and in the Buddha, in Platonism, in Stoicism, in Spinoza, Schopenhauer, and Hegel".[42]. Muntz and Friedman, both Holocaust survivors, to record his work and daily life at the hospital. In 1957, Schweitzer was one of the founders of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Today ASF helps large numbers of young Americans in health-related professional fields find or create "their own Lambarn" in the US or internationally. Dr. Albert Schweitzer who renounced fame and fortune as a musician 43 years ago - and who is on a visit to London - went to the Royal festival Hall yesterday - where he tried out the festival organ which he said ''She is magnificent - she is beautiful''. Three more, to contain the Chorale Preludes with Schweitzer's analyses, were to be worked on in Africa, but these were never completed, perhaps because for him they were inseparable from his evolving theological thought.[27]. "Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. He took to playing the organ as soon as he was big enough to reach the pedals and amazed all who listened to him. Albert Schweitzer made notable organ recordings of Bach's music in the 1940s and 1950s. Deaths were concentrated during the first few months of life, with 35% occurring during the first month. Man's ultimate redemption through beneficent activity--the theme of Part II of Goethe's "Faust," a metaphysical poem much admired by Albert Schweitzer--threads through this extraordinary man's long, complex and sometimes curious There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch, the brother of his former teacher, organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S. Bach's music. [76][77] Translating several couplets from the work, he remarked that the Kural insists on the idea that "good must be done for its own sake" and said, "There hardly exists in the literature of the world a collection of maxims in which we find so much lofty wisdom. ", His attitude was sharply expressed in a story he liked to tell of his orange trees. The grave, on the banks of the Ogooue River, is marked by a cross he made himself. for him in the ditches beside the wards. [65] For instance, he thought that Gabonese independence came too early, without adequate education or accommodation to local circumstances. His cousin Anne-Marie Schweitzer Sartre was the mother of Jean-Paul Sartre. A jungle saint he may not have been; a jungle pioneer he surely was. Her father, Charles Schweitzer, was the older brother of Albert Schweitzer's father, Louis Thophile. Visitors who equated cleanliness, tidiness and medicine were horrified by the station, for every patient was encouraged to bring one or two members of his family to cook During that year, his father, a Lutheran pastor, moved his wife and eldest son to In recent years, many have taken him to task for decidedly paternalistic and racist descriptions of his African patients that would offend many a 21st century observer. The University of Tubingen published the dissertation that resulted in 1899. On December 10, 1953 . Under this title the book became famous in the English-speaking world. He is suffering from a heart ailment. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Julian Gotobed, 2004 Albert Schweitzer was born on 14th January 1875 at Kaysersberg in Upper Alsace, Germany, a region that is now part of France. As such, and as a Lutheran, "it is precisely to the chorale [41], On the other hand, a more developed form of mysticism can be found in the Greek mystery-cults that were popular in first-century A.D. society. A Lutheran, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. Among his many charitable works, Dr. Schweitzer founded a hospital in Lambarn, which was situated in what was then known as French Equatorial Africa, and is today the capital of the province of Moyen-Ogoou in the nation of Gabon. His life was portrayed in the 1952 movie Il est minuit, Docteur Schweitzer, starring Pierre Fresnay as Albert Schweitzer and Jeanne Moreau as his nurse Marie. Dr. Howard Markel writes a monthly column for the PBS NewsHour, highlighting the anniversary of a momentous event that continues to shape modern medicine. out, including Schweitzer's pet parrot (which was not taught to talk because that would lower its dignity) and a hippopotamus that once invaded the vegetable garden. degree in February, 1913, Schweitzer studied medicine, but he did not entirely cut himself off from his other worlds. He not only played throughout Europe, but he also repaired church organs and kept Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a brilliant philosopher, physician, musician, clergyman and theological scholar. Widely honored with degrees, citations, scrolls, medals, special stamps, even the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1952, he seemed oblivious to panoply. He had scratched it out from the jungle beginning in 1913; he had designed it; Dr. Howard Markel Dr. Albert Schweitzer found no cancers in Africa at all as a doctor there from 1913 to 1930, and then found the chemicalized, European processed . Having circulated a questionnaire among players and organ-builders in several European countries, he produced a very considered report. The technique has since been used to record many modern instruments. Basketball, Argument, Life Is. Albert Schweitzer The Nobel Peace Prize 1952 Born: 14 January 1875, Kaysersberg, Germany (now France) Died: 4 September 1965, Lambarn, Gabon Residence at the time of the award: France Role: Missionary surgeon, Founder of Lambarn (Rpublique de Gabon) His grave, on the banks of the Ogoou River, is marked by a cross he made himself. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; the first nomination came in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and the second in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid. Albert Schweitzer, the son of an Evangelical Lutheran minister, was born on . for which the contemporary world with its historical and social circumstances no longer had any existence. [46] After baptism, Christians are continually renewed throughout their lifetimes due to participation in the dying and rising with Christ (most notably through the Sacraments). [45], Schweitzer contrasts Paul's "realistic" dying and rising with Christ to the "symbolism" of Hellenism. They ranged from leprosy, dysentery, elephantiasis, sleeping sickness, malaria, yellow fever, to wounds incurred by encounters with wild animals and many common health problems to which the human body is subject. He sought to exemplify the idea that man, through good works, can be in the world and in God at one and the same time. You see, the Good Lord has protected the trees. The Albert Schweitzer Page; Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer; Albert Schweitzer mzeum s archvum Gnsbach; Albert Schweitzer Fellowship; Readings on Reverence for Life; Bruderhof Peacemakers Guide profile on Albert Schweitzer; Page at the Nobel e-Museum Archivlva 2004. augusztus 15-i dtummal a Wayback Machine-ben Indeed, he was a true polymath. It is religion. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was an Alsatian-German religious philosopher, musicologist, and medical missionary in Africa. His philosophy has made a difference and has led to the passage of laws and helping the cause of animal rights in the latter half of the twentieth century. [88] Biographer James Bentley has written that Schweitzer became a vegetarian after his wife's death in 1957 and he was "living almost entirely on lentil soup". 2 in B minor; no. Dr. Albert Schweitzer was a physician, philosopher, theologian, organist and humanitarian. over into experience.". October 27, 2021 Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer known as 'Alsatian polymath', was a theologian, humanitarian philosopher, and physician. An ethical human strives to escape from this contradiction so far as possible. His medical dissertation was titled, The Psychiatric Study of Jesus.. But after a century spent healing the sick, the hospital has spent the past . The above were released in the United States as Columbia Masterworks boxed set SL-175. The onset of famine and a dysentery epidemic created fresh problems. Preventable medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the U.S after heart disease and cancer. "You must give some time to your fellow man," Schweitzer counseled in paraphrase. Turning to Bach's nonchurch music, Schweitzer said: "The Brandenburg concertos are the purest product of Bach's polyphonic style. In the Schweitzer method, the figure-8 is replaced by two small diaphragm condenser microphones pointed directly away from each other. [83] He was also a chevalier of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. Schweitzer cross-referenced the many New Testament verses declaring imminent fulfilment of the promise of the World's ending within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers. This was no sooner under way than Schweitzer fell ill, an epidemic of dysentery broke out and a famine set in. life. From 1939 to 1948, he stayed in Lambarn, unable to go back to Europe because of the war. In 1898, he returned to Paris to write a PhD dissertation on The Religious Philosophy of Kant at the Sorbonne, and to study in earnest with Widor. sermons as well as to his scalpel, for he believed that the good shepherd saves not only the animal but also his soul. for a specific application of Reverence for Life. These synthetic vaccines in themselves cause cancers as other pharmaceutical products based on the chemical nature of the medicine which largely acts as a suppressor of symptoms masquerading as a cure. For example, he once said, The African is indeed my brother, but my junior brother. On other occasions, he opined, I let the Africans pick all the fruit they want. In 1896, at the age of 21, he pledged himself that he would give the following nine Helene took up nursing to help her husband in his pursuits; later, she became skilled at delivering anesthesia to the patients on whom Albert would operate. [9] In 1893, he played for the French organist Charles-Marie Widor (at Saint-Sulpice, Paris), for whom Johann Sebastian Bach's organ music contained a mystic sense of the eternal. Director of the Lambarene hospital has been handed over to Schweitzer's assistant, Dr. Walter Munz. Their home in Knigsfeld has now been turned into a museum. yet he was a foe to materialism and to the century's criteria for personal success. 9 Department of Cardiology and . A developed form of mysticism is attained when the "conception of the universal is reached and a man reflects upon his relation to the totality of being and to Being in itself". Today, the hospital Abstract. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics But this time he had also studied the organ briefly in Paris under the legendary Charles Marie Widor, who was so impressed with "Reverence for Life," Schweitzer replied, "means my answering your kind inquiries; it also means your reverence for my dinner hour." Thousands flocked there, and thousands responded to Schweitzer's In January 1937, he returned again to Lambarn and continued working there throughout World War II. During 1934 and 1935 he resided in Britain, delivering the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University, and those on Religion in Modern Civilization at Oxford and London. ~ Albert Schweitzer. Albert Schweitzer. This house is now maintained as a Schweitzer museum.[78]. for Life. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in a historical garb. It was to this picture-book Franco-German village and its vineyards that Schweitzer was invariably to return between periods The increase in heart disease deaths from the early 20th century . ~ Albert Einstein. In their first nine months in Africa, they treated more than 2,000 patients. We really seem to see before us what the philosophy of all ages conceives as the fundamental mystery of things--that He commands. "I let the Africans pick all the fruit they want," he said. OPP!". 1 in E major; no. It speaks so piously of human dignity and human rights and then disregards this dignity and these rights of countless millions and treads them underfoot, only because they live overseas or because their skins are of different colour or because they cannot help themselves. Albert Schweitzer. In 1909, he addressed the Third Congress of the International Society of Music at Vienna on the subject. He was German and French and is known for his charitable work including opening a hospital in Africa. " Albert Schweitzer 31. dispensary were complete when he departed for Europe in midsummer 1927. It was said that he had scarcely ever talked with an adult African on adult terms. The maladies the Schweitzers treated were both horrific and deadly. In July 1918, after being transferred to his home in Alsace, he was a free man again. To support himself and to carry on the work at Lambarene, Schweitzer joined the medical staff of the Strasbourg Hospital, preached, gave lectures and organ recitals, traveled and wrote. A fost una dintre cele mai complexe i impresionante personaliti ale secolului XX. 17 Copy quote. '"[67] Chinua Achebe has criticized him for this characterization, though Achebe acknowledges that Schweitzer's use of the word "brother" at all was, for a European of the early 20th century, an unusual expression of human solidarity between Europeans and Africans. [12] In 1899, Schweitzer spent the summer semester at the University of Berlin and eventually obtained his theology degree at the University of Strasbourg. for his ethical creed was as firm at 90 as it was on his 30th birthday, the day he decided to devote the rest of his life to the natives of Africa as a physician. Respect for life, overcoming coarser impulses and hollow doctrines, leads the individual to live in the service of other people and of every living creature. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude." ~ Albert Schweitzer. Death, Cause unspecified 4 September 1965 at 11:30 AM in Lambarn (Age 90) . Preface: Albert Schweitzer, a European scholar and musician, dedicated fifty years of his life to the hospital he had built to ease the suffering of an, at that time, primitive African people. For years I had been giving myself out in words. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.". "At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from . Agriculture, not science or industrialization, is their greatest need. 97 Copy quote. He is the director of the Center for the History of Medicine and the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan and the author ofThe Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick and the Discovery of DNAs Double Helix (W.W. Norton, September 21). [70] After three decades in Africa, Schweitzer still depended on Europe for nurses.[71]. [73], Such was the theory which Schweitzer sought to put into practice in his own life. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of "being in Christ" as primary and the doctrine of justification by faith as secondary. On the other hand, patients received splendid medical care and few seemed to suffer greatly from the compound's lack of polish. The English version, "J. S. Bach," is a two-volume translation of the German text, itself an entire reworking of the first version written in French. Albert Schweitzer. bare.". He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", which states that the only thing we are really sure of is that we live and want to go on living. Philosopher and musician Dr. Albert Schweitzer, sitting at his desk in a London restaurant, around 1955. He was 90 years old. Schweitzer, the pastor's son, grew up in this exceptional environment of religious tolerance, and developed the belief that true Christianity should always work towards a unity of faith and purpose. . The "realistic" partaking in the mystery of Jesus is only possible within the solidarity of the Christian community.[44]. Throughout his lifetime, he was presented various accolades, including The Nobel Peace Prize and the Goethe Prize. He summarized it once by saying: "A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. Albert Schweitzer, born 1875 in Kaysersb erg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine in the German Empire, is perhaps mostly remembered for his work in Africa as a missionary. Schweitzer's book (and other writings as well) disputed the theory that human progress toward civilization was inevitable. He was genuinely proud of his medical and missionary station at Lambarene. Albert Schweitzer (14. tammikuuta 1875 - 4. syyskuuta 1965) oli saksalais-ranskalainen (elsassilainen) teologi, muusikko, musiikkitieteilij, filosofi ja lkri. Albert Schweitzer earned doctorates in philosophy and theology, had a reputation as one of Europe's finest organists, and came to international fame with his 1906 best seller . He is the director of the Center for the History of Medicine and the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.
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