Albert Schweitzer

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born

January 14, 1875 in Kaisersberg, Alsace-Lorraine, France

died

September 04, 1965

gender

male

genre

Religion & Spirituality

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Albert Schweitzer, M.D., OM, was an Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaisersberg in Alsace-Lorraine, a Germanophone region which the German Empire returned to France after World War I. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of historical Jesus current at his time and the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus who expected the imminent end of the world. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his philosophy of "reverence for life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Lambaréné Hospital in Gabon, west central Africa.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 387 ratings · 55 reviews · 87 distinct works

	Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer, Antje Bultmann Lemke (Translator), Jimmy Carter (Foreword by) 4.07 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1931 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer, W. Montgomery (Translator), F.C. Burkitt (Preface) 3.85 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1905 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer by Albert Schweitzer, Harold E. Robles 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1965 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Philosophy of Civilization: The Decay & the Restoration of Civilization/Civilization & Ethics by Albert Schweitzer, C.T. Campion 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1923 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Primeval Forest by Albert Schweitzer, William H. Foege (Foreword by) 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1931 — 3 editions	My rating:
	On the Edge of the Primeval Forest/More from the Primeval Forest 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1922 — 12 editions	My rating:
	J.S. Bach, Vol 1 by Albert Schweitzer, Ernest Newman (Translator), C.M. Widor (Designed by) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1935 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Animal World of Albert Schweitzer by Albert Schweitzer, Charles R. Joy (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Words of Albert Schweitzer by Albert Schweitzer, Norman Cousins (editor) 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	J.S. Bach, Vol 2 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	My rating: