Biography He was born January 14, 1875, shortly after the annexation of Alsace by the German Empire. Since at birth he was an infant small, the doctors recommended Kaysersberg his family to go somewhere where the air was pure. So he spent his childhood in Gunsbach where his father had found a position as pastor and teacher when little Albert was six months.
He was introduced very early to music and played the organ at the age of parish nine years.
He spent his high school years in Mulhouse from 1885 to 1893 and obtained his Bachelor in 1893. In October the same year he began studying theology and philosophy at the University of Strasbourg and studied the organ in Paris , from Charles-Marie Widor.
The day of Pentecost 1896, he decided at the age of thirty, he would focus on service purely humanitarian .
At age 86, 5 November 1961 , Albert Schweitzer acceded to the Unitarian Universalist Church of the United States by joining the "Church of the Larger Fellowship led by Marshall and his friend set up by the denomination for its members scattered around the world . Albert Schweitzer died at Lambarn in 1965.
Notoriety
His work includes some thirty books, including a study theological Reich Gottes und Christentum (The Kingdom of God and Christianity) and his autobiography. His philosophy revolves around an important principle: respect for life. This principle brings the leading thinkers of India , in particular thinkers of Buddhism , which he will write an essay.
His film was played by Pierre Fresnay in Midnight, Dr Schweitzer ( 1952 ) with Jeanne Moreau in the role of his nurse, Mary.
His cousin Anne-Marie Schweitzer Sartre was the mother of Jean-Paul Sartre.
The work of Albert Schweitzer has inspired a number of associations and organizations that work today as the ethics of it. Among them, the Albert Schweitzer Zentrum in Germany, the Swiss Albert Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer Ecological Centre (CEAS) in Switzerland.
He inspired Larry Mellon , heir to the family Mellon , who founded in 1956 the Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti to Deschapelles in Haiti.
He gave his name to several schools, including Albert Schweitzer School of Mulhouse.
Quotes
"I am life that wants to live, surrounded by life that wants to live. Every day and every hour that belief with me. The property is to maintain and support life, the evil is to destroy life and impede. "
- Civilization and Ethics, 1976
"Whenever I'm about to spoil any life, I must ask myself clear whether this is necessary. I never have to authorize me to go beyond the necessary, even in cases apparently insignificant. "
- Civilization and Ethics, chap. XXI, 1976
James Cameron, a British journalist who spent time with him to write a series of articles for the "News Chronicle" describes it thus: "The doctor only eat fruits and vegetables, but in large amounts: avocados, mangoes and soybeans, and especially a great variety of boiled bananas. The Doctor has few illusions about modern civilization and that is why he advocates a story based on the Respect for Life. He thinks that modern civilization based on the atomic weapon is falsely based on the destruction of life. "
Rather than endure colonialism, Schweitzer was one of the harshest critics. In a sermon preached January 6, 1905, before it was announced in anyone's plans humanitarian he discoursed:
"Our culture divides people into two classes: civilized men, a title granted to those who do the rankings, and others that have only human form, and may perish or be thrown to the dogs that" civilized men "have to do.
Oh, this "noble" culture of ours! It speaks so piously of human dignity and human rights, and fails to respect the dignity and rights of countless millions before the crowd to its feet, because they live overseas or as their skins are different colors or they can not "help themselves". This culture does not know how it is hollow and miserable and full of glib talking shop, how trivial it seems to those who follow her across the seas and see what it has committed over there I will not
"There are two ways to forget the worries of life: music and cats. "
Works
- Eugene Munch 1857-1898, ed. J. Printing Brinkmann, Mulhouse, 1898
- Die Religionsphilosophie Kant 1., Ed. CA Wagners Freiburg i. B., 1899
- Das im Zusammenhang mit dem Abendmahl Leben Jesu und der Geschichte der Urchristentums, ed. JC Mohr, Tubingen, 1901
- Johann Sebastian Bach, the musician-poet, ed. Breitkopf & Hrtel, Leipzig, 1905
- International rules for the construction of organs, Strasbourg, 1909
- Die Psychiatrische Beurteilung Jesu Darstellung und Kritik, ed. JC Mohr, Tubingen, 1913
- At the edge of the rainforest, ed. Evangelical Bookshop, Strasbourg, 1923, repr. Albin Michel , 1995
- News Lambarn - From spring to autumn 1924, ed. Evangelical Bookshop, Strasbourg, 1925
- Memories of my childhood, ed. Concorde, Lausanne, 1926
- Great thinkers of India, ed. Payot, Paris, 1936
- Stories of the virgin forest, ed. Payot, Paris, 1941
- Goethe The man and his work, Alsace season No. 1 to 1950, Strasbourg, 1950
- Pelican Dr. Schweitzer, ed. Sun, Paris, 1952
- Peace or Atomic War, ed. Albin Michel, Paris, 1958
- Memories of my childhood, ed. Albin Michel, Paris, 1960
- My life and my thoughts, ed. Albin Michel, Paris, 1960
- The secret history of the life of Jesus (translated from German by Annie Anex-Heimbrod), ed. Albin Michel, Paris, 1961
- Mysticism of the apostle Paul (translated from German by Marcelle Guritot), ed. Albin Michel, Paris, 1962
- Story of my pelican, ed. Albin Michel, Paris, 1963
- Civilization and Ethics (translated from German by Horst Madeleine), ed. Alsatia, 1976
- Peace through respect for life (translated from German by Horst Madeleine), ed. The Blue Swarm, 1979
- Conversations on the New Testament, ed. Brepols, Paris, 1996
- Humanism and mystical, ed. Albin Michel, 1995. ( ISBN 9782226078933 )
- Live, ed. Albin Michel, 1995. ( ISBN 9782226077523 )
- Act , ditions_Ampelos , 2009
References
- "Die Entscheidung gall, als ich Jahre alt war einundzwanzig. Damals, als in den Pfingstenferien Student, Beschloss ich bis zum Jahre dreiigsten Predigeramt dem, der Wissenschaft und der Musik zu leben. Dann, wenn ich in Wissenschaft und Kunst geleistet htte, Was ich darin vorhatte, wollte ich einen Weg als Mensch of unmittelbaren Dienens betreten. Welches dieser Weg within sollte, in der ich Gedachte Zwischenzeit aus der zu erfahren Umstnden. "Schweitzer, Albert. Aus meine Kindheit und _ _ Jugendzeit, Berlin, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1953, p. 50. - Free translation: "The decision came at the age of 21. At the time, then a student on holiday of Epiphany, I decided to live the life of a pastor, science and music until the age of thirty. Then, when science and music would have made me what I made was, I wanted to get into a process of direct aid. What would this route, I thought my schedule would discover in the meantime "
- a and b http://www.ivu.org/history/europe20a/schweitzer.html
- Albert Blanchard-Gaillard, Albert Schweitzer, he was a Unitarian? Profiles freedom
- http://books.google.fr/books?as_isbn=1570756023
Bibliography
- Biography in French: Pierre Lassus, Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, Albin Michel, 1995
- (De) Almut and Hermann Reichenbecher Emma Haussknecht, 1895-1956: 30 Jahre mit Albert Schweitzer in Lambarn: eine Bio, Business Pro, Berlin, 2007 (2nd edition, revised and expanded), 236 p. ( ISBN 978-3 - 939430-26-1 )
- (De) (en) Sonja Poteau, Damien Mougin and Christoph Wyss, Albert Schweitzer: Gunsbach to Lanbarn, LBI, Weil am Rhein (Germany), Thun (Switzerland); Gunsbach, 2008, 336 p. ( ISBN 3 - 9522419-5-4 )
- (En) Robert Arnaut Albert Schweitzer: the man beyond the internationally recognized. A medical humanist exceptional year of French Equatorial Africa, De Vecchi, Paris, 2009, 605 p. ( ISBN 978-2-7328-9378-5 )
- (En) Jean-Marc Pascolo, Albert Schweitzer, the organ of the parish Protestant magazine "Between Lauter and Robin" No. 7 of January 1994 ( ISSN 1148-9316 )
- (En) Andr Audoynaud, Dr. Schweitzer and his hospital in Lambarn: the other side of a myth, L'Harmattan, 2006, 310 p. ( ISBN 2-7475-9499-8 )
- (Fr) Bernard Kaempf, The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer: Respect for life, always present (conference proceedings, Strasbourg 2005, organized by the Centre for the Sociology of Religion and Social Ethics at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of Strasbourg, 18 and 19 November 2005), J. Do Bentzinger, Colmar, 2006, 185 p. ( ISBN 2-84960-076-8 )
- (En) Jo and Walter Munz, Heart of gazelle hippo skin: the last years of Albert Schweitzer in Lambarn and evolution of the hospital until today (translated by Jean-Paul Sorg, foreword by Bernard Kouchner , J. Do Bentzinger ed., Colmar, 2006, 274 p. ( ISBN 2-84960-093-8 )
- Biography in English: "Albert Schweitzer as I Knew Him", Edouard Nies-Berger, Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press. 2002. 143pp. ( ISBN 1 57647 039 3 )
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