Schweitzer

A Biography

BY GEORGE MARSHALL AND DAVID POLING

Brief Description:
An accomplished organist and interpreter of Bach, a crusader for world peace, and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Schweitzer made his philosophy of "reverence for life" an ethic for the world. The hospital he founded in Lambarene (still in operation in present-day Gabon) is a model of what Europeans might have given to Africans throughout colonial history. This biography probes beyond his timeworn image as "the old man in the pith helmet" to portray the philosopher, scholar, husband, father, humanitarian, and liberal rebel within a conservative church.

JohnsHopkins 2000 348 PP. Paper

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