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Schweitzer, Albert

亚尔萨斯出生的德国神学家、哲学家、风琴家和传教医生。早年曾获得哲学学位（1899），并成为有成就的风琴师。在他为巴哈写的传记（2卷；1905）中，他认为巴哈是一名宗教神秘主义者。他还写了有关风琴构造的书，并出版了一套巴哈的风琴作品。他的宗教书籍包括了对圣保罗的描述。他的《历史真实中的耶稣之研究》（1910）造成了很广泛的影响。1905年宣布他将成为传教士医生，并献身慈善工作。他和妻子在1913年迁往法属赤道非洲的兰巴雷内（今加彭省），并在当地人的帮助下在奥果韦河畔修建了医院，後附加了一个麻疯病治疗区。1952年以「国家之间的友好兄弟关系」获得了诺贝尔奖。在他去世前两年，他的医院和麻疯病治疗区已有五百名病人。他的哲学书讨论了他着名的「对生命的尊重」的理论。

1875～1965年

Schweitzer, Albert

Alsatian-German theologian, philosopher, organist, and mission doctor. In his early years he took a degree in philosophy (1899) and became an accomplished organist. In his huge biography of J.S. Bach (2 vols., 1905), he viewed Bach as a religious mystic. He also wrote on organ construction and produced an edition of Bach's organ works. His books on religion include several on St. Paul; his Quest of the Historical Jesus (1910) became widely influential. In 1905 he announced he would become a mission doctor and devote himself to philanthropic work. He and his wife moved in 1913 to Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), and with local helpers built a hospital on the banks of the Ogooué River, to which they later added a leper colony. In 1952 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of “the Brotherhood of Nations.” Two years before his death, his hospital and leper colony was serving 500 patients. His philosophical books discuss his famous principle of “reverence for life.”.