. The epidemic promoted Everyone can have their own Lambarn". He established a hospital and treated the natives there. 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. OPP!". an incurable scourge. He died at 11:30 P.M. (6:30 P.M. New York time). Schweitzer and his wife did the best they could. 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. "You must give some time to your fellow man," Schweitzer counseled in paraphrase. Albert Schweitzer (1966). You must not expect anything from others. 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. " Albert Schweitzer 31. [93] Then at his suggestion the sessions were transferred to the church of Ste Aurlie in Strasbourg, on a mid-18th-century organ by Johann Andreas Silbermann (brother of Gottfried), an organ-builder greatly revered by Bach, which had been restored by the Lorraine organ-builder Frdric Hrpfer shortly before the First World War. it less unruly); age seamed his face, shrunk his frame, made him appear bandy-legged; time softened his eyes and made them less severe. Schweitzer explains that Paul focused on the idea of fellowship with the divine being through the "realistic" dying and rising with Christ rather than the "symbolic" Hellenistic act of becoming like Christ through deification. Although Paul is widely influenced by Hellenistic thought, he is not controlled by it. Two 1992 episodes of the television series. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. The technique has since been used to record many modern instruments. His death, political upheavals leading to Gabon's independence in 1960, decreasing foreign . for which the contemporary world with its historical and social circumstances no longer had any existence. to school for a few hours every day and then going back to the fields. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" also drew Schweitzer's warmest praise. Also like Goethe, on whose life and works he was expert, Schweitzer came near to being a comprehensive man. A man of peace and non-violence, Albert Schweitzer is the total antithesis of those who sought to remake the world via war, violent revolution, genocide, terrorism, and the killing fields. and time, making him inwardly free, so that he is fitted to be, in his own world and in his own time, a simple channel of the power of Jesus.". Schweitzer's ethical system, elucidated at length in "The Philosophy of Civilization," is boundless in its domain and in its demands. Lambarene was suffused with Reverence for Life to what some critics thought was an exaggerated degree. He returned to Africa alone in 1925, his wife and daughter, Rhena, who was born in 1919, remaining in Europe. Scientific materialism (advanced by Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin) portrayed an objective world process devoid of ethics, entirely an expression of the will-to-live. He defended Jesus' mental health in it. Hnelle mynnettiin vuoden 1952 Nobelin rauhanpalkinto . Schweitzer died on 4 September 1965 at his beloved hospital in Lambarn, now in independent Gabon. [18], The exposition of these ideas, encouraged by Widor and Munch, became Schweitzer's last task, and appeared in the masterly study J. S. Bach: Le Musicien-Pote, written in French and published in 1905. [55] In early 1913, he and his wife set off to establish a hospital (the Hpital Albert Schweitzer) near an existing mission post. In this time and the succeeding months The waiting room and dormitory were built, like native huts, of unhewn logs along a path leadingl to the boat landing. They need very elementary schools run along the old missionary plan, with the Africans going A Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. (78rpm Columbia ROX 146152), cf. 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. Albert Schweitzer's Death - Cause and Date Born (Birthday) Jan 14, 1875 Death Date September 4, 1965 Age of Death 90 years Cause of Death Natural Causes Profession Doctor The doctor Albert Schweitzer died at the age of 90. Advertisement. 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. The list, alas, goes on and his prejudices are difficult, if not impossible, to ignore. Not only did he design the station, but he also helped build it with his own hands. (78rpm HMV C 1532 and C 1543), cf. October 27, 2021 Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer known as 'Alsatian polymath', was a theologian, humanitarian philosopher, and physician. He had scratched it out from the jungle beginning in 1913; he had designed it; A fost una dintre cele mai complexe i impresionante personaliti ale secolului XX. Lambarene resembled not so much a hospital as a native village where physicians cared for the sick. As such, and as a Lutheran, "it is precisely to the chorale There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. The information that each capsule collects is unique, unlike the identical out-of-polarity information generated from the figure-8 in a regular mid-side. Schweitzer regarded most native Africans as children, as primitives. Albert Schweitzer was born in a small town in France in 1875 and he passed away in Gabon, Africa in 1965 after a rich and illustrious career. point in time. Albert Schweitzer studied the music of Johann Bach who was a German Composer. [73], Such was the theory which Schweitzer sought to put into practice in his own life. 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. He progressed to studying for his Ph.D. in theology in 1899 at the Sorbonne, where he focused on the religious philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Will Peace Living. This book, which established his reputation, was first published in English in 1910 as The Quest of the Historical Jesus. It is a historical review of ethical thought leading to his own 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. Schweitzer's recordings of organ-music, and his innovative recording technique, are described below. [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. No greater tribute to his abilities as a conqueror of jungle need 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. "He is a figure 1952. prize money. Schweitzer's only daughter, Mrs. Rhena Eckert, will be its administrator. "At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from . These chapters started a chain As recognition for his many years of humanitarian work he was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1952 and in 1955, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him Great Britain's highest civilian award, the Order of Merit. he started to write the two-volume "The Philosophy of Civilization," his masterwork in ethics that was published in 1923. As a child, he was frail and an indifferent student in everything but music, for which he showed the interest of a prodigy. With the new hospital built and the medical team established, Schweitzer returned to Europe in 1927, this time leaving a functioning hospital at work. He maintained, instead, that man must rationally formulate an ethical creed and then strive to put it into practice. who founded the kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work the final consecration, never had any existence," Schweitzer wrote. 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. 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 . 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. He was elected to the French Academy in 1951. In the Schweitzer method, the figure-8 is replaced by two small diaphragm condenser microphones pointed directly away from each other. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. [69] By comparison, his English contemporary Albert Ruskin Cook in Uganda had been training nurses and midwives since the 1910s, and had published a manual of midwifery in the local language of Luganda. Today, the hospital Albert Schweitzer. over into experience.". The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give His work its final consecration, never had any existence. "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. [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. 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]. There was great demand for a German edition, but, instead of translating it, he decided to rewrite it. Schweitzer inspired actor Hugh O'Brian when O'Brian visited in Africa. His medical degree dissertation was another work on the historical Jesus, Die psychiatrische Beurteilung Jesu. '"[72] In nature one form of life must always prey upon another. 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. A Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the . yet he was a foe to materialism and to the century's criteria for personal success. 97 Copy quote. to the church to play Bach. Joseph also returned. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. On an afternoon, Schweitzer could often be seen leaving his home to slip over Preventable medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the U.S after heart disease and cancer. In 1899, Schweitzer became a deacon at the church of Saint Nicholas in Strasbourg. On one of these occasions, in 1949, he visited If Schweitzer was thin-skinned to criticism from irreverent journalists, he heard little of it at Lambarene, where his proprietorship was unquestioned. The film The Legacy of Albert Schweitzer, narrated by Henry Fonda, was produced by Warner Brothers and aired once. [10], From 1893 Schweitzer studied Protestant theology at the Kaiser Wilhelm University in Strasbourg. LAMBARENE, GABON, Sept. 5--Albert Schweitzer died last night in his jungle hospital here. January 24, 2023 Causes of Wrongful Conviction: False testimony, false confession, ineffective assistance of counsel ALBERT IAN SCHWEITZER On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, 1991, a young woman named Dana Ireland was struck by a vehicle while she was riding a bicycle down a red cinder road on the island of Hawai'i. For all his self-abnegation, Schweitzer had a bristly character, at least in his later years, a formidable sense of his own importance to Lambarene and a do-good paternalism toward Africans that smacked more of the 19th than the 20th century. . for him in the ditches beside the wards. Allez-vous, OPP-opp. Babies, even in the leper enclave, dropped toys into the dust of the unpaved streets and then popped them into their mouths. O'Brian returned to the United States and founded the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation (HOBY). In contemplation of the will-to-life, respect for the life of others becomes the highest principle and the defining purpose of humanity. 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). 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. By mid-century it had become the commonest cause. Bartolf, Christian; Gericke, Marion; Miething, Dominique (2020): This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 08:10. In 1952, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Peace Prize. 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." Mosquitoes were not swatted, nor pests and insects doused with chemicals; they were left alone, and humans put up with them. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dr-albert-schweitzer-a-renowned-medical-missionary-with-a-complicated-history. 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. about the religion of love, but only as an actual putting it into practice.". Albert Schweitzer's engagement with Judaism, and with the Jewish community more generally, has never been the subject of substantive discussion. ~ Albert Schweitzer. The family and close friends were prepared for the end. E.M.G., op. In their first nine months in Africa, they treated more than 2,000 patients. East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892, When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America Since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed and An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine., Left: The site was nearly 200 miles (14 days by raft[56]) upstream from the mouth of the Ogoou at Port Gentil (Cape Lopez) (and so accessible to external communications), but downstream of most tributaries, so that internal communications within Gabon converged towards Lambarn. The laying down of the commandment to not kill and to not damage is one of the greatest events in the spiritual history of mankind. Albert Schweitzer was a revered French-German humanitarian, writer, theologian, medical missionary, organist, physician, and philosopher. The natives have all the usual diseases, plus Hansen's In 1924, Schweitzer returned without his wife, with an Oxford undergraduate Noel Gillespie as his assistant. . its creature comforts yet rejecting its complacent attitudes toward progress. He was 90 years old. The on-axis microphone is often a large diaphragm condenser. Schweitzer was a harsh critic of colonialism, and his medical mission was his response to the "injustices and cruelties people have suffered at the hands of Europeans.". It resides in their vault today in deteriorating condition. "You see, the good Lord has protected the trees. In The Quest, Schweitzer criticised the liberal view put forward by liberal and romantic scholars during the first quest for the historical Jesus. The mid-side sees a figure-8 microphone pointed off-axis, perpendicular to the sound source. sermons as well as to his scalpel, for he believed that the good shepherd saves not only the animal but also his soul. "It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. Such comments were, at the very least, a contradiction of his worldview of showing reverence for all human life in both deeds and words. Director of the Lambarene hospital has been handed over to Schweitzer's assistant, Dr. Walter Munz. [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. The two remaining volumes, on The World-View of Reverence for Life and a fourth on the Civilized State, were never completed. Having circulated a questionnaire among players and organ-builders in several European countries, he produced a very considered report. 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. His death was attributed to circulatory trouble brought on by his advanced age. Schweitzer also studied piano under Isidor Philipp, head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory. ", "The Jesus of Nazareth . It is religion. Hupp, upp. 3 in A minor. LAMBARENE, GABON, Sept. 5--Albert Schweitzer died last night in his jungle hospital here. Albert Schweitzer, OM (14 January 1875 - 4 September 1965) was a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician.He was born in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine and although that region had been reintegrated into the German Empire four years earlier, and remained a German province until 1918, he considered himself French and wrote mostly in French. Carl Dean Switzer, the actor who as a child played Alfalfa in the Our Gang comedy film series, dies at age 31 in a fight, allegedly about money, in a Mission Hills, California, home. Schweitzer considered his work as a medical missionary in Africa to be his response to Jesus' call to become "fishers of men". Whatever Schweitzer's idiosyncrasies, he constructed a profound and enduring ethical system expressed in the principle Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben or Reverence of Life. Actually, Schweitzer preferred (and planned) it in this fashion on the ground that the natives would shun an elaborate, shiny and impersonal institution. Through concerts and other fund-raising, he was ready to equip a small hospital. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.". On his trip to Europe, Schweitzer invariably made his headquarters at his home in Gunsbach, which was expanded until it was also a leave and rest center for the hospital staff. His brother, Dr. Paul Schweitzer, 83, was not able to be with him. 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. 171,135 Swedish krona. the United States and lectured on Goethe at a conference in Aspen, Colo. ", His attitude was sharply expressed in a story he liked to tell of his orange trees. READ MORE: The story behind Alfred Nobels spirit of discovery. Paul stands high above primitive mysticism, due to his intellectual writings, but never speaks of being one with God or being in God. In the almost eight years of his absence, the jungle had reclaimed the hospital grounds, and the buildings had to be rebuilt. the faculty at Strasbourg; wrote "The Mystery of the Kingdom of God"; and, at Widor's urging, completed a study of the life and art of Johann Sebastian Bach. Widor had not grown up with knowledge of the old Lutheran hymns. In the early 1950s, as the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally settled into the worlds conscience, he joined forces with Albert Einstein, Otto Hahn, Bertrand Russell, and others to urge social responsibility and a ban on the use of nuclear weapons. 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. We really seem to see before us what the philosophy of all ages conceives as the fundamental mystery of things--that Albert Schweitzer. newsletter for analysis you wont find anywhereelse. 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. On one occasion a group of tourists pulled him away from the dinner table to get an explanation of his ethics. On departure for Lambarn in 1913, he was presented with a pedal piano, a piano with pedal attachments to operate like an organ pedal-keyboard. For every person who committed an atrocity in Jesus' name, someone must step in to help in Jesus' name; for every person who robbed, someone must bring a replacement; for everyone who cursed, someone must bless. Also Known As: Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer Died At Age: 90 Family: Spouse/Ex-: Helene Bresslau father: Louis Thophile siblings: Emma Schweitzer, Louisa Schweitzer, Lulie Adele Schweitzer, Marguerit Schweitzer, Paul Schweitzer children: Rhena Schweitzer Miller Born Country: France Quotes By Albert Schweitzer Nobel Peace Prize His speech ended, "The end of further experiments with atom bombs would be like the early sunrays of hope which suffering humanity is longing for. He returned to Lambarene in 1929 and remained for two years, establishing a pattern of work in Africa and sojourns in Europe during which he lectured, wrote and concertized to raise funds for his hospital. 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, circa 1960 in Lambarn, Gabon, where he established a hospital. One of them, Gerald McKnight, wrote in his book "Verdiot on Schweitzer": "The temptation for Schweitzer to see Lambarene as a place cut off from the world, in which he can preserve "its original forms and so reject any theory of treatment or life other than his Exposition and Criticism[52]). [12] In 1899, Schweitzer spent the summer semester at the University of Berlin and eventually obtained his theology degree at the University of Strasbourg. And the Christianity of our states is blasphemed and made a mockery before those poor people. [80] With the $33,000 prize money, he started the leprosarium at Lambarn. Schweitzer's university life was interrupted by a year of compulsory military service in 1894, a period that proved crucial to his religious thinking and to his life's vocation. He was however also a theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. Albert Schweitzer 30. 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. Late in the third day of his journey he was on deck thinking and writing. Schweitzer concluded his treatment of Jesus with what has been called the most famous words of twentieth-century theology: "He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, He came to those men who knew him not. Albert "Ian" Schweitzer, Hawaii man imprisoned for Dana Ireland's 1991 murder and rape, released after lawyer presents new evidence - CBS News Watch CBS News Crime Hawaii man in prison for. be cited than the fact--regarded locally as something of a miracle--of his own survival.". Christ-mysticism holds the field until God-mysticism becomes possible, which is in the near future. Oh, this 'noble' culture of ours! According to some authors, Schweitzer's thought, and specifically his development of reverence for life, was influenced by Indian religious thought and in particular the Jain principle of ahimsa, or non-violence. Explaining his decision later in more mundane terms, Schweitzer said: "I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk. Albert Schweitzer. Mankind had to choose to create the moral structures of civilization: the world-view must derive from the life-view, not vice versa. The passage that appears to have directed his professional life describes Jesus exhorting his followers to Heal the Sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. (Matthew, 10:8) In 1896, at the age 21, he decided to devote a period of time studying science and the arts and then to dedicate the rest of his life to helping the suffering. " Albert Schweitzer 32. READ MORE: Celebrating the life of Alice Hamilton, founding mother of occupational medicine. Among the messages he received was one from President Johnson. But Schweitzer rejected such adulation; he held that his own spiritual life was its own reward and that works redeemed him.
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