His father, a Lutheran pastor, moved the family to a nearby town, Gunsbach, which was situated in the foothills the Vosges mountain range. From 1939 to 1948, he stayed in Lambarn, unable to go back to Europe because of the war. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. You must give some time to your fellow man. 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. There were no significant differences in all-cause and cardiovascular death, stroke and major adverse cardiovascular events. While he was on his sickbed, his terminally ill son cared for him despite battling a diagnosis that claimed his life a year later. His philosophy was expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Hpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambarn, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). These included the cults of Attis, Osiris, and Mithras. He came to the Ogooue in 1913 when horses drew the buses of London and leprosy was considered 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. an incurable scourge. [92], Recordings of Schweitzer playing the music of Bach are available on CD. He insisted on seeing personally that the youngster got a prompt and touching reply from his own pen before work was permitted to resume. in 1913. It resides in their vault today in deteriorating condition. "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 Oh, this 'noble' culture of ours! the United States and lectured on Goethe at a conference in Aspen, Colo. The years thinned and grayed his hair (without making At the Mulhouse gymnasium he received his "Abitur" (the certificate at the end of secondary education) in 1893. READ MORE: No, Oscar Wilde probably didnt die of syphilis. Hailed as an outstanding world figure, Schweitzer was. He received his M.D. Albert Schweitzer 30. Schweitzer unabashedly emphasizes the fact that "Paul's thought follows predestinarian lines". For years I had been giving myself out in words. The maladies the Schweitzers treated were both horrific and deadly. Whatever Schweitzer's idiosyncrasies, he constructed a profound and enduring ethical system expressed in the principle Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben or Reverence of Life. 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 first, he regarded his new life as a renunciation of his art, and fell out of practice, but after some time he resolved to study and learn by heart the works of Bach, Mendelssohn, Widor, Csar Franck, and Max Reger systematically. 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. Widely honored with degrees, citations, scrolls, medals, special stamps, even the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1952, he seemed oblivious to panoply. OPP!". [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. Joseph also returned. R.D. 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 belong to you until my dying breath," he told co-workers at the sprawling hospital on his 90th birthday Jan. 14. In June of 1912, he married Helene Bresslau (the daughter of a professor of history at Strasbourg). He was 90 years old. At the age of 18 he entered the University of He also set in motion important ideas concerning our ethical treatment of animals . There was great demand for a German edition, but, instead of translating it, he decided to rewrite it. In 1909, he addressed the Third Congress of the International Society of Music at Vienna on the subject. Schweitzer's ethical system, elucidated at length in "The Philosophy of Civilization," is boundless in its domain and in its demands. On one occasion a group of tourists pulled him away from the dinner table to get an explanation of his ethics. After peaking in the mid-1960s, the number of heart disease deaths began a marked decline that has persisted to the present. 3 in A minor. 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. Additional medical staff, nurse (Miss) Kottmann and Dr. Victor Nessmann,[60] joined him in 1924, and Dr. Mark Lauterberg in 1925; the growing hospital was manned by native orderlies. Schweitzer's book (and other writings as well) disputed the theory that human progress toward civilization was inevitable. The natives have all the usual diseases, plus Hansen's 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. "I let the Africans pick all the fruit they want," he said. Schweitzer maintained that the life of Jesus must be interpreted in the light of Jesus' own convictions, which reflected late Jewish eschatology and apocalypticism. From 1952 until his death Schweitzer worked against nuclear weapons together with Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter. 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 . Darrell 1936. [judecat de valoare] n 1952 a primit Premiul Nobel pentru Pace . 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. The committee of this missionary society was not ready to accept his offer, considering his Lutheran theology to be "incorrect". 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. "The Teaching of Reverence for Life". He planned to spread the Gospel by the example of his Christian labour of healing, rather than through the verbal process of preaching, and believed that this service should be acceptable within any branch of Christian teaching. "The chorale not only puts in his possession the treasury of Protestant music," Schweitzer wrote, "but also opens to him the riches of the Middle Ages and of the sacred Latin music from Turning to Bach's nonchurch music, Schweitzer said: "The Brandenburg concertos are the purest product of Bach's polyphonic style. 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. We must make atonement for the still worse ones, which we do not read about in the papers, crimes that are shrouded in the silence of the jungle night Schweitzer was nonetheless still sometimes accused of being paternalistic in his attitude towards Africans. Today marks the 141st birthday of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965). Actually, Schweitzer preferred (and planned) it in this fashion on the ground that the natives would shun an elaborate, shiny and impersonal institution. Paul stands high above primitive mysticism, due to his intellectual writings, but never speaks of being one with God or being in God. The signal from the figure-8 is mult-ed, panned hard left and right, one of the signals being flipped out of polarity. The two remaining volumes, on The World-View of Reverence for Life and a fourth on the Civilized State, were never completed. It is religion. for him in the ditches beside the wards. 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. Humanitarian and theologian. As Schweitzer recounted this climactic incident, he had been baffled in getting an answer to the question: Is it at all possible to find a real and permanent foundation in thought for a theory of the universe that shall be both ethical and affirmative Schweitzer's only daughter, Mrs. Rhena Eckert, will be its administrator. 19th-century benevolence. 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. With Faust himself he could join in saying: This sphere of earthly soil 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. Heart disease was an uncommon cause of death in the US at the beginning of the 20th century. of self-unfolding of the idea in which it creates its own opposite in order to overcome it, and so on and on until it finally returns to itself, having meanwhile traversed the whole of existence.". "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 . After his wife died in 1957, Schweitzer was almost continuously in Lambarene. Wikisource. The family and close friends were prepared for the end. The increase in heart disease deaths from the early 20th century . He established a hospital and treated the natives there. In 1917, the Schweitzers were returned to France and later to Alsace. But Schweitzer rejected such adulation; he held that his own spiritual life was its own reward and that works redeemed him. In 1957, Schweitzer was one of the founders of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner in Strasbourg (under Otto Lohse) and in 1896 he managed to afford a visit to the Bayreuth Festival to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, both of which impressed him. side by side! October 27, 2021 Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer known as 'Alsatian polymath', was a theologian, humanitarian philosopher, and physician. it.". its creature comforts yet rejecting its complacent attitudes toward progress. [16] From 1952 until his death he worked against nuclear tests and nuclear weapons with Albert Einstein, Otto Hahn and Bertrand Russell. Louis Schweitzer, Alberts father, was pastor to a Lutheran congregation at Kaysersberg, a Protestant church located in a predominantly Catholic place. As a child, he was frail and an indifferent student in everything but music, for which he showed the interest of a prodigy. 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 maintained, nonetheless, that Jesus' concepts were eternal. Schweitzer developed a technique for recording the performances of Bach's music. He commands. "[81], Weeks prior to his death, an American film crew was allowed to visit Schweitzer and Drs. Schweitzer writes: 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 existed. His 1931 autobiography, Out of My Life and Thought, describing much of his work in Africa, was an international best-selling book. ". Albert entered the Kaiser Wilhelm University of Strasbourg at age 18. In 1957 and 1958, he broadcast four speeches over Radio Oslo which were published in Peace or Atomic War. Such comments were, at the very least, a contradiction of his worldview of showing reverence for all human life in both deeds and words. On Oct. 13, 1905, he posted letters from Paris to his parents and friends saying that at the start of the winter term he would become a medical student to prepare himself Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. Now I had my way to the idea in which world [affirmation] and life-affirmation and ethics are contained His medical dissertation was titled, The Psychiatric Study of Jesus.. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. A famous charitable institution in Africa, the Albert Schweitzer hospital in Gabon, is nearing its hundredth birthday. 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). 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". In 1952, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. had a profound influence on contemporary religious thinking. He was made an honorary member of the British Order of Merit in 1955. The onset of famine and a dysentery epidemic created fresh problems. 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. LAMBARENE, GABON, Sept. 5--Albert Schweitzer died last night in his jungle hospital here. 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. Death, Cause unspecified 4 September 1965 at 11:30 AM in Lambarn (Age 90) . Later Dr. Trensz replaced Nessmann, and Martha Lauterberg and Hans Muggenstorm joined them. Schweitzer presents Bach as a religious mystic, as cosmic as the forces of nature. To the end, his one frustration was that he had not succeeded in convincing the world to abolish nuclear weapons. Then a single cardioid microphone is placed on axis, bisecting the figure-8 pattern. He also studied piano at that time with Marie Jall. Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. 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 . Christ-mysticism holds the field until God-mysticism becomes possible, which is in the near future. Birthplace: Kaysersberg, Germany Location of death: Lambarn, Gabon Cause of death: Natural Causes Remains: Buried, Albert. 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. yet he was a foe to materialism and to the century's criteria for personal success. Schweitzer's recordings of organ-music, and his innovative recording technique, are described below. [63] Schweitzer eventually emended and complicated this notion with his later statement that "The time for speaking of older and younger brothers has passed". Schweitzer considered his ethic of Reverence for Life, not his hospital, his most important legacy, saying that his Lambarn Hospital was just "my own improvisation on the theme of Reverence for Life. He was the son of Louis Schweitzer and Adle Schillinger. Indeed, he was a true polymath. Lambarene was suffused with Reverence for Life to what some critics thought was an exaggerated degree. Although several attempts have been made to restore and re-air the film, all access has been denied.[82]. . "He is a figure The epidemic promoted No greater tribute to his abilities as a conqueror of jungle need 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. On Good Friday, 1913, the couple set sail from Bordeaux for Africa, where Schweitzer established a hospital on the grounds of the Lambarene station of the Paris Missionary Society. A fost una dintre cele mai complexe i impresionante personaliti ale secolului XX. brought to a halt lest nests of ants be killed or disturbed. Our culture divides people into two classes: civilized men, a title bestowed on the persons who do the classifying; and others, who have only the human form, who may perish or go to the dogs for all the 'civilized men' care. full expression in the 18th century.". The history of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital (ASH) The first foundations of the ASH were laid in Andende, a district of Gabon's provincial capital of Lambarn, located on the right bank of the Ogoou opposite the current site of the ASH. When Schweitzer was in residence at Lambarene, virtually nothing was done without consulting him. [68], American journalist John Gunther visited Lambarn in the 1950s and reported Schweitzer's patronizing attitude towards Africans. His grave, on the banks of the Ogoou River, is marked by a cross he made himself. Edward Albert Heimberger, famously known by his stage name Eddie Albert, was one actor and activist who . As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ Reform Movement (Orgelbewegung). for his altruism, reverence for life, and tireless humanitarian work which has helped making the idea of brotherhood between men and nations a living one (English) ~ Albert Schweitzer. The Schweitzers had their own bungalow and employed as their assistant Joseph, a French-speaking Galoa[clarification needed] (Mpongwe), who first came to Lambarn as a patient.[57][58]. "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 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''. Last edited on 28 February 2023, at 08:10, Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer, Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Religion & the Treatment of God's Creatures", "Review of "The Mystery of the Kingdom of God", "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness", "Albert Schweitzer and Henry Fonda's Lost Special", "List of Members of the Order of Merit, past and present", "History of Vegetarianism Dr Albert Schweitzer (18751965)", "Knigsfeld feiert ?Schweitzer-Erben? Schweitzer's probing conception of Bach created a sensation in its time, and it still remains a classic study, not only for the detailed instructions it provides for the playing of Bach but also for its challenging esthetic. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Even in his study of medicine, and through his clinical course, Schweitzer pursued the ideal of the philosopher-scientist. When the as his medical assistants grew less awesome of him. Though he took theology at university, studying at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universitt in Strasbourg and at the Sorbonne in Paris before publishing his PhD thesis - on The Religious Philosophy of Kant - at the University of Tbingen in 1899, he first found acclaim as a scholar of music. Exposition and Criticism[52]). '"[72] In nature one form of life must always prey upon another. 106 likes. 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 "In your commitment to truth and service," the President cabled, "you have touched and deepened the live of millions you have never met. He was also appointed organist for the Bach Concerts of the Orfo Catal at Barcelona, Spain, and often travelled there for that purpose. Attending the University of Strasbourg, he served as curate at St. Nicholas, gave 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.
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