Albert Schweitzer: a Biography

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Albert Schweitzer was a German-born French theologian and biblical scholar, philosopher, missionary, doctor of medicine, and accomplished interpreter of Bach's organ music. Professor Oermann's biography draws on newly uncovered personal papers and attempts to do justice to Schweitzer's multifaceted life, work, and thought.

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Full title :Albert Schweitzer : a Biography.

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Publication Date:2016.

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Publisher(s):OUP Oxford
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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10. Further Literature (a Selection)Index.

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Description:1 online resource (290 pages)

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ISBN:9780191087035, 0191087033, 9780191827020, 0191827029, 9780198784227, 0198784228
oclc:ocn963586990
LC Classification:D652
Dewey Decimal:610.92

Cover ; Albert Schweitzer: A Biography; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents; List of Plates; Abbreviations; Timeline; Plates; Introduction; 1: A Sense of Devotion: From the Parsonage to Theology (1875-1903); A Pastor's Son in Alsace; Schooling and Early Years; A Student of Theology, Philosophy, and Music; Kant and the Study of Philosophy; Curate, Doctoral Student, and Outsider; Theologian or Mystic?; 2: Saving the Whole: From Theology to Bach and then to Medicine (1903-1912); Bach, or the Art of Playing the Organ; Reaching a Decision; The Study of Medicine; The Loyal Comrade.

3: The Spiritual Adventurer: From Strasbourg to the Jungle and Back Again (1912-1917)Departure to Equatorial Africa; Lambarene, a Hospital in Africa; The Outbreak of War and Deportation; 4: It Is Good to Preserve Life: Albert Schweitzer's Philosophy of Civilization; 'We are all of us just nothing but Epigoni'; Reverence for Life; Philosophy of Civilization and Religion; The Importance of Animals; 5: The Iron Door Yields: Crisis and Breakthrough (1917-1932); Return to Alsace; The Lost Penny; Back in Lambarene; On the Proper Treatment of Natives.

6: With Central African Greetings: The Time of the Third Reich (1…

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