It resides in their vault today in deteriorating condition. 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. "A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life, which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives . in 1913 with specialization qualifications in tropical medicine and surgery. Bach, he said, was chiefly a church composer. . 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) Csar Franck: Organ Chorales, no. 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. 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). 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. And now, when you speak about missions, let this be your message: We must make atonement for all the terrible crimes we read of in the newspapers. 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. As such, and as a Lutheran, "it is precisely to the chorale He was made an honorary member of the British Order of Merit in 1955. In 1912, now armed with a medical degree, Schweitzer made a definite proposal to go as a physician to work at his own expense in the Paris Missionary Society's mission at Lambarn on the Ogoou river, in what is now Gabon, in Africa (then a French colony). Biography - A Short Wiki Lecturing widely on the problems of peace, Dr. Schweitzer told his wide audience, The end of further experiments with atom bombs would be like the early sunrays of hope which suffering humanity is longing for., Not all was sunny with Schweitzers social commentary. Life, Grief, Bad Ass. [6] The tiny village would become home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer (AIAS). J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 536; Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 534; Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544; Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538. Darrell 1936. [28] Built especially for the tropics, it was delivered by river in a huge dug-out canoe to Lambarn, packed in a zinc-lined case. His father, a Lutheran pastor, moved the family to a nearby town, Gunsbach, which was situated in the foothills the Vosges mountain range. Date of birth. "Constant kindness can accomplish much. for the life of a physician in French Equatorial Africa. And so he proceeded to build a hospital appropriate to the needs of junior brothers with standards of hygiene reminiscent of medical practice in the days before the germ theory of disease came into being."[63]. He insisted on seeing personally that the youngster got a prompt and touching reply from his own pen before work was permitted to resume. Albert Schweitzer was a revered French-German humanitarian, writer, theologian, medical missionary, organist, physician, and philosopher. Albert Schweitzer. Albert Schweitzer, OM (14 January 1875 - 4 September 1965) was a French-German theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. " One person can and does make a difference. Schweitzer's death was kept secret through the night because of a request he had. 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. But after a century spent healing the sick, the hospital has spent the past . Albert Schweitzer, circa 1960 in Lambarn, Gabon, where he established a hospital. 1 in E major; no. 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. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Once, for instance, he all but halted the station's work when he received a letter from a Norwegian child seeking a feather from Parsifal, his pet pelican. He studied organ in Mulhouse from 1885 to 1893 with Eugne Munch, organist at the Protestant cathedral, who inspired Schweitzer with his enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. He was genuinely proud of his medical and missionary station at Lambarene. [85][86][87] Schweitzer was not a vegetarian in his earlier life. His cousin Anne-Marie Schweitzer Sartre was the mother of Jean-Paul Sartre. Death, Cause unspecified 4 September 1965 at 11:30 AM in Lambarn (Age 90) . 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 started to write the two-volume "The Philosophy of Civilization," his masterwork in ethics that was published in 1923. designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb.". Of course, it had no telephone, radio or airstrip. Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. Kentucky Vital Records Indexes at Ancestry (these require payment) Kentucky Death Certificates and Records, 1852-1965 (coverage before 1911 varies by county) includes digitized Kentucky death certificates from 1911-1965, plus earlier records for some counties ; Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000 I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. Two 1992 episodes of the television series. to the church to play Bach. Schweitzer was born 14 January 1875 in Kaysersberg in Alsace, in what had less than four years previously become the Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine in the German Empire after being French for more than two centuries; he later became a citizen of France after World War I, when Alsace became French territory again. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in a historical garb. 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. 1952. prize money. Such comments were, at the very least, a contradiction of his worldview of showing reverence for all human life in both deeds and words. For him it had profound religious implications. 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. Albert entered the Kaiser Wilhelm University of Strasbourg at age 18. Everything was heavily decayed, and building and doctoring progressed together for months. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" also drew Schweitzer's warmest praise. Success is not the key to happiness. and worked unobtrusively. 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). So far as we know, this is for the first time clearly expressed by Jainism. 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''. There was a further period of work in 1935. [39][failed verification] He wrote that in his view, in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a "tribulation", with his "coming in the clouds with great power and glory" (St. Mark), and states that it will happen but it has not: "This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" (St. Matthew, 24:34) or, "have taken place" (Luke 21:32). He was 90 years old. as his medical assistants grew less awesome of him. Albert Schweitzer born The theologian, musician, philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning physician Albert Schweitzer is born on January 14, 1875 in Upper-Alsace, Germany (now Haut-Rhin, France).. The committee of this missionary society was not ready to accept his offer, considering his Lutheran theology to be "incorrect". Whatever Schweitzer's idiosyncrasies, he constructed a profound and enduring ethical system expressed in the principle Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben or Reverence of Life. The maladies the Schweitzers treated were both horrific and deadly. In a sermon that he preached on 6 January 1905, before he had told anyone of his plans to dedicate the rest of his life to work as a physician in Africa, he said:[64]. In 1931, he published Mystik des Apostels Paulus (The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle);[36] a second edition was published in 1953. This, Name in native language. Jesus, Schweitzer contended, believed himself the Messiah who would rule in a new kingdom of God when "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 The compound was staffed by 3 unpaid physicians, 7 nurses and 13 volunteer helpers. 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. [80] With the $33,000 prize money, he started the leprosarium at Lambarn. years to science and art and then devote himself to the service of suffering humanity. 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. (78rpm Columbia ROX 146152), cf. Schweitzer's view that "simple people need simple healing methods," however it might have outraged medical sophisticates, won for Lambarene a tremendous measure of native confidence. [55] In early 1913, he and his wife set off to establish a hospital (the Hpital Albert Schweitzer) near an existing mission post. When the Known as the "Schweitzer Technique", it is a slight improvement on what is commonly known as mid-side. The comparison of NOAC-based DAT vs. vitamin . Albert Schweitzer - At times our own light goes out and is. He established a hospital and treated the natives there. an incurable scourge. 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. The natives have all the usual diseases, plus Hansen's 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. 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. Throughout his lifetime, he was presented various accolades, including The Nobel Peace Prize and the Goethe Prize. Happiness is the key to success. [13][16], Schweitzer rapidly gained prominence as a musical scholar and organist, dedicated also to the rescue, restoration and study of historic pipe organs. of the world and life? " Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. Thank you. Although several attempts have been made to restore and re-air the film, all access has been denied.[82]. Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images. She 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. In 1957, Schweitzer was one of the founders of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Alfalfa, the. People robbed native inhabitants of their land, made slaves of them, let loose the scum of mankind upon them. Fugue in A minor (Peters, Vol 2, 8); Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (Great) (Vol 2, 4); Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major (Vol 3, 8). Schweitzer's wife, Helene Schweitzer, served as an anaesthetist for surgical operations. Albert Schweitzer (1966). Dr. Albert Schweitzer was a physician, philosopher, theologian, organist and humanitarian. Ever the autodidact, during this period Albert also served as curate for the church Saint-Nicolas in Strasbourg. [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. Ethics themselves proceed from the need to respect the wish of other beings to exist as one does towards oneself. 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. ", "At this stage," Schweitzer said in 1963, "Africans have little need for advanced training. in Greek, chapters that contain Jesus' injunctions to His apostles, among them the one that commands, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have Dr. Howard Markel writes a monthly column for the PBS NewsHour, highlighting the anniversary of a momentous event that continues to shape modern medicine. Schweitzer considered his work as a medical missionary in Africa to be his response to Jesus' call to become "fishers of men". [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). Then a single cardioid microphone is placed on axis, bisecting the figure-8 pattern. He defended Jesus' mental health in it. Altogether his early Columbia discs included 25 records of Bach and eight of Csar Franck. Albert Schweitzer's engagement with Judaism, and with the Jewish community more generally, has never been the subject of substantive discussion. Published in 1910, it at once established Schweitzer as an eminent, if controversial, theologian whose explosive ideas Actually, Schweitzer preferred (and planned) it in this fashion on the ground that the natives would shun an elaborate, shiny and impersonal institution. In 1922, he delivered the Dale Memorial Lectures in the University of Oxford, and from these in the following year appeared Volumes I and II of his great work, The Decay and Restoration of Civilization and Civilization and Ethics. 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. 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. Hailed as an outstanding world figure, Schweitzer was. [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. Dramatisations of Schweitzer's life include: Paul's "realism" versus Hellenistic "symbolism", Schweitzer's Bach recordings are usually identified with reference to the Peters Edition of the Organ-works in 9 volumes, edited by. barred him from preaching at the station, but agreed to accept his medical skills. By 1920, his health recovering, he was giving organ recitals and doing other fund-raising work to repay borrowings and raise funds for returning to Gabon. Some of his more ardent admirers insisted that he was a jungle saint, even a modern Christ. He was also appointed organist for the Bach Concerts of the Orfo Catal at Barcelona, Spain, and often travelled there for that purpose. As a person, Schweitzer was a curious mixture. cit., Philips ABL 3134, issued September 1956. [91], The prize was first awarded on 29 May 2011 to Eugen Drewermann and the physician couple Rolf and Raphaela Maibach in Knigsfeld im Schwarzwald, where Schweitzer's former residence now houses the Albert Schweitzer Museum. Description and criticism] (published in English in 1948 as The Psychiatric Study of Jesus. over into experience.". Although unacceptable in todays culture, Dr. Schweitzers comments about those he treated were, sadly, all too common during his era, one marked by colonialism, paternalism and racist views. Lambarene, on the Ogooue River a few miles from the Equator, is in the steaming jungle.