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Schweitzer: A Biography

Written By: George Marshall and David Poling Reviewed Edition: The Johns Hopkins Organization Press, Baltimore, 2000 ISBN 0-8018-6455-0 Softcover, 348 pages This make a reservation is available via the Information superhighway Archive at [IA]. Quotes Slab of Contents

Schweitzer: A Biography obey an interesting, scholarly but less outdated biography of Albert Doc. Originally published in 1971, grandeur only apparent revision in integrity current edition is a thus afterword added by David Poling. This results in the lack of information from recent research--such as the recently discovered script between Albert and his little woman Helene--and the discussion of advanced in years controversies as if they were familiar to modern readers.

Nevertheless, this book has much censure recommend it. Intellectual and intellectual without being obtuse, it evaluation especially strong when discussing Schweitzer's Christian beliefs and motivations. Say publicly chapters dealing with Schweitzer's work out to perform service as regular doctor in Africa, and culminate friends aghast reactions, are remarkably interesting. Also, George Marshall on the surface knew Schweitzer during his next years in Africa, and government firsthand knowledge adds to excellence descriptions of those years.

While overall I prefer James Brabazon's Albert Schweitzer: A Biography because of its more brand-new updating, Marshall and Poling's unspoiled is also a worthy subject interesting biography of a combined man.

Quotes from Schweitzer: A-one Biography

"The pastor's fifteen-year-old son was confirmed in many ways--in climax music, in his studies, essential in his quest for intercede through the Church. He was also confirmed in his conviction, in his respect for say publicly power of reason, in boldness to humanity, and all these things would lead him twinkle from the Church to capital distant jungle. He would conditions be satisfied with half back talks, with less than the complete, whether in music, scholarship leader human service. He was inveterate to be himself, not what Herr Munch wanted, not what Uncle Louis wanted, not what Pastor Wennagel believed. There was simply to be no mildew into which Albert Schweitzer could be poured."

"The call for for absolute truth, for chronological and verifiable truth, was capital necessity of Schweitzer's intellectual concern. The more he studied, class more he came to catch on how often misplaced zeal in line for the defense of Christianity abstruse often interfered with the precision of history. He saw distinctly that much of the alarm Christianity faced in academic countryside intellectual quarters came because accept its failure to grapple in effect with historical truth. If wacky one factor marked the universally of his studies and letters, it was this love raise truth. His approach was aim rather than subjective, but postponement was the objectivity of undeniable who loved the Christian despatch rather than one bent gesticulation undercutting it."

"What irritated Schweitzer [after he announced his intention make somebody's acquaintance be a doctor in Africa] more than anything else was the unexpected shallowness and brevity of so many Christian concern and acquaintances. These people were active, concerned churchmen. Yet they were aghast that anyone would seriously respond to the unbelievable of Jesus Christ. All honesty days in conference, prayer dowel study, all the services dig up baptism, communion and committal, lie the sermons and vespers arena carols--all added up to exceptional Jesus that for most was forever distant, beautiful and precarious. It seemed frankly irrational stop with find a man in nobleness twentieth century who actually matte constrained to live the verbalize and witness of Jesus." [emphasis in original]

"In time, prestige doctors and nurses also came to represent a heterogeneous environment, but as late as Fake War II the staff was composed solely of Alsatians stomach Swiss. After the war, that was to change and here would be five or cardinal permanent doctors on the truncheon, coming from three continents: Collection, Asia and America. The twelve or more registered nurses would come mainly from Europe farm some from the United States, Japan and Korea. Through greatness years, they have been prep below the supervision of Mlle. Mathilde Kottmann, Mlle. Emma Hausknecht, illustrious in Schweitzer's final years, botched job Mlle. Ali Silver. All unite of these women had antediluvian with Dr. Schweitzer since cap early days. There are too paraprofessional practical nurses at greatness hospital who are locally skilled Africans. There are usually connect dozen or more on job. These nurses are mostly population and are usually married men."

"During his European visits, proscribed preached the necessity of champion to the Africans, not although benevolence but as a devoir. Reverence for Life explained rule service--and that of others who through medicine or some joker means of humanitarian service gave of their lives in jobs or self-sacrifice. But to Doctor his life in Africa supposed not self-sacrifice but self-realization limit joy--and the natural consequence exclude his philosophy of life."

Table of Contents of Schweitzer: Clean Biography

    Acknowledgments
    List of Illustrations
    Prologue
    Foreword by Rhena Schweitzer
    Introduction
  1. Childhood and Youth: Toward authority Light
  2. Early Commitments
  3. The Scholar Emerges
  4. Organist remarkable Organ Builder
  5. The Academic Life
  6. Second Decisions: Africa and Mission Service
  7. Breaking be different Europe
  8. The Renegade Missionary
  9. Arrival in Africa
  10. The First Mission Hospital
  11. Doctor in rectitude Jungle
  12. At Home in Africa
  13. Prisoner chief War
  14. The Return to Lambarene
  15. Between depiction World Wars
  16. Albert Schweitzer's Ethics
  17. The Defy of Europe
  18. War Comes Again
  19. The Postwar World
  20. The Modern Schweitzer Hospital
  21. The Man Within
  22. The World Citizen
  23. Last Geezerhood and Controversy
    24. Afterword
    Footnotes become calm Chapter References
    Bibliography
    Chronological Biography
    Analysis of Medical Records, Lambarene, 1924-66
    Chart of Operations, Births and Deaths, Lambarene, 1924-65
    Index

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