Albert Schweitzer : a Biography.
- Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2016.
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
10. Further Literature (a Selection)Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 (1933-1945)The Calm before the Storm; Lambarene during the War; 7: Exorcising the Ghost of the Nuclear War: Schweitzer in the Cold War (1945-1957); 'The Greatest Man in the World'; The Nobel Peace Prize and its Consequences; Schweitzer, Einstein, and the Bomb; A Bell from the German Democratic Republic; Homo politicus; 8: How Beautiful! The Last Years (1957-1965); Decolonization and Criticism; The Ninetieth Birthday; 9: Conclusion: Myth and Reality; Notes; Introduction; 1. A Sense of Devotion; 2. Saving the Whole. 3. The Spiritual Adventurer4. It Is Good to Preserve Life; 5. The Iron Door Yields; 6. With Central African Greetings; 7. Exorcising the Ghost of the Nuclear War; 8. How Beautiful! The Last Years (1957-1965); 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; 1. Documents from Archives; 2. Personal interviews; 3. Internet Sources; 4. Publications by Albert Schweitzer; 5. English Translations of Schweitzer's Works; 6. Albert Schweitzer's Complete Works; 7. Works from the Literary Estate; 8. Individual Publications of Albert Schweitzer's Correspondence; 9. Works by Albert Schweitzer in the Beck Series.
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.