"No doubt a wish to have absolute dominion over his hospital drove him to this course, linked with the inner purpose which had brought him to Africa, but it was nonetheless heroic. The name of Jesus has become a curse, and our Christianityyours and minehas become a falsehood and a disgrace, if the crimes are not atoned for in the very place where they were instigated. It was a beautiful locale and one that Albert would often return to for the rest of his life, especially when he was weary from his many medical and missionary responsibilities. He defended Jesus' mental health in it. He and his wife (they were German citizens) were interned as prisoners of war for four months, then released to continue the work of the hospital. Now I had my way to the idea in which world [affirmation] and life-affirmation and ethics are contained Two physicians had arrived from Europe, and to them and to two nurses he turned over all medical responsibilities for a year and a half while he supervised (and helped) to fell trees, clear ground and construct buildings. Three years after the end of World War II, in 1948, he returned for the first time to Europe and kept travelling back and forth (and once to the US) as long as he was able. concerts on the organ, conducted a heavy correspondence and examined Pauline ideas, especially that of dying and being born again "in Jesus Christ." 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. 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. Ever the autodidact, during this period Albert also served as curate for the church Saint-Nicolas in Strasbourg. The committee of this missionary society was not ready to accept his offer, considering his Lutheran theology to be "incorrect". Schweitzer inspired actor Hugh O'Brian when O'Brian visited in Africa. Edgar Berman quotes Schweitzer as having said in 1960, "No society can go from the primeval directly to an industrial state without losing the leavening that time and an agricultural period allow. its creature comforts yet rejecting its complacent attitudes toward progress. Albert Schweitzer, the son of an Evangelical Lutheran minister, was born on . Albert Schweitzer. "Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. The RR was subsequently downgraded (from AA to C). over into experience.". Schweitzer maintained that the life of Jesus must be interpreted in the light of Jesus' own convictions, which reflected late Jewish eschatology and apocalypticism. Rhena Schweitzer Miller, the only child of Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who carried on his medical missionary work in Africa after his death in 1965, died Sunday. His father and both grandfathers were pastors and organists. The on-axis microphone is often a large diaphragm condenser. be cited than the fact--regarded locally as something of a miracle--of his own survival.". While he was on his sickbed, his terminally ill son cared for him despite battling a diagnosis that claimed his life a year later. In this time and the succeeding months After his wife died in 1957, Schweitzer was almost continuously in Lambarene. A complex man, to be sure, but his humanitarianism did affect the lives of many patients in desperate need of attention and, for the most part, he positively influenced the world in which he inhabited. Darrell 1936. In 1931, he published Mystik des Apostels Paulus (The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle);[36] a second edition was published in 1953. "From whatever direction he is considered, Bach is, then, the last word in an artistic evolution which was prepared in the Middle Ages, freed and activated by the Reformation and arrives at its True to his pledge, Schweitzer turned from music and theology to service to others. It was to this picture-book Franco-German village and its vineyards that Schweitzer was invariably to return between periods Schweitzer was one of colonialism's harshest critics. An ethical human strives to escape from this contradiction so far as possible. '", "The iron door has yielded," he went on, "the path in the thicket had become visible. original contribution of Reverence for Life as an effective basis for a civilized world. "At the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence (78rpm Columbia ROX 146152), cf. September 24, 1965 1965 T he death of Albert Schweitzer on September 4 brought down the curtain on one of the greatest of human dramas. Birthplace: Kaysersberg, Germany Location of death: Lambarn, Gabon Cause of death: Natural Causes Remains: Buried, Albert. To me, Dr. Schweitzer is the one truly great individuals our modern times have produced. Death, Cause unspecified 4 September 1965 at 11:30 AM in Lambarn (Age 90) . From the first, when Schweitzer's hospital was a broken-down hen coop, natives flocked by foot, by improvised stretcher, by dugout canoe to Lambarene for medical attention. In 1896, at the age of 21, he pledged himself that he would give the following nine [4][5] He spent his childhood in Gunsbach, also in Alsace, where his father, the local Lutheran-Evangelical pastor of the EPCAAL, taught him how to play music. 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. [18] He and Widor collaborated on a new edition of Bach's organ works, with detailed analysis of each work in three languages (English, French, German). Schweitzer also wrote the book, The Animal World of Albert Schweitzer, a collection of Schweitzer's writings about the application of ethics to the animal kingdom. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) On March 21, 1913, theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa Albert Schweitzer together with his wife Helene start their voyage to Africa, to establish a hospital in Equatorial Africa. He was 90 years old. Schweitzer wrote, "True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness, and this may be formulated as follows: 'I am life which wills to live, and I exist in the midst of life which wills to live. In 1906, he published Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung [History of Life-of-Jesus research]. In 1957, Schweitzer was one of the founders of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. 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 By extreme application and hard work, he completed his studies successfully at the end of 1911. He was extremely intelligent and excelled in many fields (music, theology, philosophy and medicine), which means he could have easily led a very comfortable life anywhere in Europe . Schweitzer and his wife did the best they could. the neighboring village of Gunsbach amid the foothills of the Vosges. [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). During his return visits to his home village of Gunsbach, Schweitzer continued to make use of the family house, which after his death became an archive and museum to his life and work. Albert entered the Kaiser Wilhelm University of Strasbourg at age 18. Albert Schweitzer. This new form of activity I could not represent to myself as talking J. S. Bach: Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582; Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 533; Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543; Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541; Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. and worked unobtrusively. Schweitzer was not only struck by the application of these verses to himself, but even more by the over-all content of the two chapters as expressed in Jesus' assertion that "the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Albert was born in 1875 in Kaysersberg (Alsace-Lorraine), Germany, (now Haut-Rhin, France), only two months after Germany annexed that province from France, as a result of winning the Franco-Prussian war. I will not enumerate all the crimes that have been committed under the pretext of justice. bare.". But determination to make his life an "argument" . his death to more than 70 buildings, 350 beds and a leper village of 200. In his story for PBS NewsHour, Dr. Howard Markel, University of Michigan medical historian writes: Hnelle mynnettiin vuoden 1952 Nobelin rauhanpalkinto . Among the messages he received was one from President Johnson. [85][86][87] Schweitzer was not a vegetarian in his earlier life. Albert Schweitzer. After retiring as a practicing doctor, Albert Schweitzer continued to oversee the hospital until his death at the age of 90. 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. as his medical assistants grew less awesome of him. Also, he is famous for being a music scholar and an organist. 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Among children 1-59 months of age, ALRI was present in 51% of the deaths, and enteric diseases in 30%. "Reverence for Life," Schweitzer replied, "means my answering your kind inquiries; it also means your reverence for my dinner hour." "Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing Widor, deeply impressed, agreed to teach Schweitzer without fee, and a great and influential friendship thus began. 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. Schweitzer's wife, Helene Schweitzer, served as an anaesthetist for surgical operations. [16] From 1952 until his death he worked against nuclear tests and nuclear weapons with Albert Einstein, Otto Hahn and Bertrand Russell. On 23 April 1957, Schweitzer made his "Declaration of Conscience" speech; it was broadcast to the world over Radio Oslo, pleading for the abolition of nuclear weapons. [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. Biography - A Short Wiki " Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. (He played Bach at Lambarene, too, on pianos especially lined with zinc to prevent rot.) 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. A judge ordered his release Tuesday after hours of expert testimony on new evidence showing Schweitzer wasn't responsible for the death of Ireland, 23, a tourist from Virginia. 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. He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated (by stops) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing the same music together. Mankind had to choose to create the moral structures of civilization: the world-view must derive from the life-view, not vice versa. His pamphlet "The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France" (1906,[25] republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927) effectively launched the 20th-century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principlesalthough this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer had intended. Schweitzer's pedal piano was still in use at Lambarn in 1946. received, "freely give"; and the verse that urges men, "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.". '"[72] In nature one form of life must always prey upon another. Throughout his lifetime, he was presented various accolades, including The Nobel Peace Prize and the Goethe Prize. For 158 years now, it has continued to be the well-worn and widely accepted conclusion that Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, died an untimely death by typhoid fever on 14 December 1861.Without recourse to detailed research or the challenging of past conclusions, this cause of death has been repeated from one source to the next as a given. At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. [6] The tiny village would become home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer (AIAS). [45], Schweitzer contrasts Paul's "realistic" dying and rising with Christ to the "symbolism" of Hellenism. On an afternoon, Schweitzer could often be seen leaving his home to slip over He is the author or editor of 10 books, including Quarantine! People robbed native inhabitants of their land, made slaves of them, let loose the scum of mankind upon them. Schweitzer depicted Jesus as a child of his times who shared the eschatological ideas of late Judaism and who looked for an immediate end of the world. In contemplation of the will-to-life, respect for the life of others becomes the highest principle and the defining purpose of humanity. Director of the Lambarene hospital has been handed over to Schweitzer's assistant, Dr. Walter Munz. Albert Schweitzer was born on January 14, 1875, in Kaysersberg, near Strasbourg, Elsass-Lothringen, Germany (now in Alsace, France). In 1905, Widor and Schweitzer were among the six musicians who founded the Paris Bach Society, a choir dedicated to performing J. S. Bach's music, for whose concerts Schweitzer took the organ part regularly until 1913. Name in native language. [50] He could easily have obtained a place in a German evangelical mission, but wished to follow the original call despite the doctrinal difficulties. In The Quest, Schweitzer criticised the liberal view put forward by liberal and romantic scholars during the first quest for the historical Jesus. Now I knew that the world-view of ethical world-and- life-affirmation, together with its ideal of civilization, is founded in thought.". In line with the 20th century he sought to put religion on a rational footing and to accept the advances of science; [90], The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship was founded in 1940 by Schweitzer to unite US supporters in filling the gap in support for his Hospital when his European supply lines were cut off by war, and continues to support the Lambarn Hospital today. In 1900, with the completion of his licentiate in theology, he was ordained as curate, and that year he witnessed the Oberammergau Passion Play. In 1952, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. The technique has since been used to record many modern instruments. A rift opened between this world-view, as material knowledge, and the life-view, understood as Will, expressed in the pessimist philosophies from Schopenhauer onward. 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? He apparently did so in the company of his two cats, "Sizi" and . "It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. He now had salvarsan for treating syphilitic ulcers and framboesia. "Anyone can rescue his human life," he once said, "who seizes every opportunity of being a man by means of personal action, however unpretending, [44] Therefore, Schweitzer argues that Paul is the only theologian who does not claim that Christians can have an experience of "being-in-God". He returned to Africa alone in 1925, his wife and daughter, Rhena, who was born in 1919, remaining in Europe. Oh, this 'noble' culture of ours! in 1913. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. 106 likes. He also studied piano at that time with Marie Jall. [73], Such was the theory which Schweitzer sought to put into practice in his own life. For seven years, from 1906 until he received his M.D. Until his death in 1965, Schweitzer continued to publish, lecture, perform and care for the sick. Albert Schweitzer is best known as a great humanitarian because of the fact that he spent his life from age 40 until his death in Africa as a medical doctor at Lambgarence. [62], The poor conditions of the hospital in Lambarn were also famously criticized by Nigerian professor and novelist Chinua Achebe in his essay on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness: "In a comment which has often been quoted Schweitzer says: 'The African is indeed my brother but my junior brother.' And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. The list, alas, goes on and his prejudices are difficult, if not impossible, to ignore. 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''. For Schweitzer, mankind had to accept that objective reality is ethically neutral. (Revelation 22:20). Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. In the Schweitzer method, the figure-8 is replaced by two small diaphragm condenser microphones pointed directly away from each other. [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. In 1909, he addressed the Third Congress of the International Society of Music at Vienna on the subject. Schweitzer's arrival at this decision was calculated, a step in a quest for a faith to live by. He locates Paul between the two extremes of primitive mysticism and developed mysticism.
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