My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer

degree, he founded his hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, but in 1917 he and his wife were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war. Having decided to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a pastor, Schweitzer in 1905 began the study of medicine at the University of Strasbourg. Musicologist as well as performer, Schweitzer wrote a biography of Bach in 1905 in French, published a book on organ building and playing in 1906, and rewrote the Bach book in German in 1908. From his professional engagements he earned funds for his education, particularly his later medical schooling, and for his African hospital. Only nine when he first performed in his father’s church, he was, from his young manhood to his middle eighties, recognized as a concert organist, internationally known. Meanwhile he continued with a distinguished musical career initiated at an early age with piano and organ lessons.

In 1906 he published The Quest of the Historical Jesus, a book on which much of his fame as a theological scholar rests. Nicholas Church in Strasbourg in 1899 he served in various high ranking administrative posts from 1901 to 1912 in the Theological College of St.Thomas, the college he had attended at the University of Strasbourg. Schweitzer entered into his intensive theological studies in 1893 at the University of Strasbourg where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1899, with a dissertation on the religious philosophy of Kant, and received his licentiate in theology in 1900. His father and maternal grandfather were ministers both of his grandfathers were talented organists many of his relatives were persons of scholarly attainments.

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My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer