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Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer

1875 – 1965 · aged 90

French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)

Born
14 Jan 1875 · Kaysersberg
Died
4 Sept 1965 · Lambaréné
Part ofFrance359 BCE – todayGerman Reich1815 – 1949Protestantism1494 – todayReformed1497 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 14 Jan 1875BornBorn in Kaysersberg
  2. 1928AwardGoethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt
  3. 1932AwardGoethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
  4. 1948AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
  5. 1950AwardGrand Officer of the Legion of Honour
  6. 1950AwardOfficer of the Legion of Honour
  7. 1951AwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
  8. 1951AwardJohann-Peter-Hebel-Preis
  9. 1952AwardNobel Peace Prize
  10. 1952AwardParacelsus Medal of the German Medical Association
  11. 1952AwardPrince Carl Medal
  12. 1954AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  13. 1955AwardHonorary member of the Order of Merit
  14. 4 Sept 1965DiedDied in Lambaréné

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1875 – 1965).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis

Biography

Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʃvaɪtsɐ] ; 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of the historical Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of "being in Christ" as primary and the doctrine of justification by faith as secondary.

He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life". His philosophy was expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ Reform Movement (Orgelbewegung).

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