Schweitzer: A Biography

Title: Schweitzer: A Biography
Author: George Marshall
ISBN: 9780801864551
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine


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He was an accomplished organist and interpreter of Bach, a crusader for world peace, and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He made his philosophy of "reverence for life" an ethic for the world. The hospital he founded in LambarA(c)nA(c) (still in operation in present-day Gabon) is a model of what Europeans might have given to Africans throughout colonial history. But above all, Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a talented and compassionate human being. This biography probes beyond the timeworn image of Schweitzer as "the old man in the pith helmet" to reveal the philosopher, scholar, husband, father, humanitarian, and liberal rebel in a conservative church.