Born in Brussels, he was a son of Max Guttenstein and Marie-Paule Schweitzer.

As the father of an autistic son ( Ben ), Schweitzer has also spoken publicly about autism-related issues.

John Danforth Herman Greenwood ( b. London 26 June 1889 d. Ditchling 15 April 1975 ), a composer best known for his work in motion pictures, was the son of a New Zealander, Alfred Greenwood ( 1842-1912 ) and his English-born wife Ottilie Rose Minna ( 1855-1932 ) née Schweitzer.

Louis Schweitzer is the son of Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) from 1963 to 1973.

In the nearby village of Gunsbach, Albert Schweitzer grew up in the late 19th century, when the region was known as Elsaß-Lothringen ( Alsace-Lorraine ) and was part of the German Empire.

Schweitzer notes that St. Paul apparently believed in the immediacy of the " Second Coming of Jesus ": " Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord " ( 1 Thessalonians 4. 17 ).

* Albert Schweitzer sets up the Albert Schweitzer Hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa.

As originally defined by Albert Schweitzer, the quest began in the 18th century with Hermann Samuel Reimarus, up to William Wrede in the 19th century.

Schweitzer criticized Indian philosophical and religious traditions for having conceived ahimsa as the negative principle of avoiding violence instead of emphasizing the importance of positive action ( helping injured beings ).

Albert Schweitzer wrote that he and Steiner had in common that they had " taken on the life mission of working for the emergence of a true culture enlivened by the ideal of humanity and to encourage people to become truly thinking beings ".

We have aligned ourselves with that `` liberal '' tradition in Protestant Christianity that counts among the great names in its history those of Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Herrmann, Harnack, and Troeltsch, and more recently, Schweitzer and the early Barth and, in part at least, Bultmann.

Schweitzer, who insisted that the score should show Bach's notation with no additional markings, wrote the commentaries for the Preludes and Fugues, and Widor those for the Sonatas and Concertos: six volumes were published in 1912 – 14.

In response to criticism that this was a naive and quixotic proposal, Schweitzer stated, " The naive should inherit the earth because the realists have done such a lousy job ".

" Dr. Albert Schweitzer had overemphasized this doctrine, but we should not compensate by underemphasizing it.

In The Quest, Schweitzer reviewed all former work on the " historical Jesus " back to the late 18th century.

Schweitzer, however, writes: " The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of heaven upon earth and died to give his work its final consecration never existed.

The work of Reimarus is highly praised in Albert Schweitzer.

Doctor Albert Schweitzer, famous for his medical and humanitarian work, served as an Honorary President of the International Kindness Club, before it was incorporated into the Humane Society of the United States ( HSUS ), of which Mrs. Flemming became an honorary board member.

While serving in Africa, Charpentier met Dr. Albert Schweitzer and became an advocate for his work.

Critical analyses of Ligotti's work can be found in S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale ( 2001 ), as well as in a critical anthology assembled by Darrell Schweitzer, a fan of Ligotti.

Early active magnetic bearing patents were assigned to Jesse Beams at the University of Virginia during World War II and are concerned with ultracentrifuges for purification of the isotopes of various elements for the manufacture of the first nuclear bombs, but the technology did not mature until the advances of solid-state electronics and modern computer-based control technology with the work of Habermann and Schweitzer.

An excellent example is the photograph " Schweitzer at the Lamp " by W. Eugene Smith, from his 1954 photo essay A Man of Mercy on Dr. Albert Schweitzer and his humanitarian work in French Equatorial Africa.

* In 1979 at Carnegie Hall, she received the Albert Schweitzer Music Award " for a life's work dedicated to music and devoted to humanity.

Schweitzer was interviewed by 60 Minutes in late 2006 or early 2007 as well as by Charlie Rose ( on March 7, 2007 ), regarding his work in this field.

( Bucknell 2002 ) Dissenters from this view notably included Albert Schweitzer, who argued against the alleged ' purity ' of music in a classic work on Bach.

Schweitzer also proposed a " juvenile disarmament " resolution to the UN whereby toy guns and water pistols would be prohibited as an initial step towards effective disarmament and arms control.

In seeking for such meaning and purpose, Albert Schweitzer seized upon the concept of the `` sacredness of life ''.

In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.

Schweitzer seems, in fact, to acquire for himself a burden of sin, not bequeathed by Adam, but accumulated in the inevitable judgments which life requires of him as between greater and lesser responsibilities.

There is indeed a moral responsibility on man himself, for his own soul's sake, to respect lower life and to avoid the infliction of suffering, but this viewpoint Schweitzer rejects.

Glance at the list: Burckhardt, Tolstoy, Proudhon, Thoreau, London, Marx, Tawney, Mayo, Durkheim, Tannenbaum, Mumford, A. R. Heron, Huxley, Schweitzer, and Einstein.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer, world-famous theologian and medical missionary, has endorsed an Easter March for Disarmament which begins tomorrow in Sunnyvale.

Glenn Kittler has been twice to Africa, once spending a week with Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

Schweitzer, a Lutheran, challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view.

Born in Kaysersberg, Schweitzer spent his childhood in the village of Gunsbach, Alsace (), where his father, the local Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, taught him how to play music.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

Widor, deeply impressed, agreed to teach Schweitzer without fee, and a great and influential friendship was begun.

Schweitzer absolved the one year compulsory military service in 1894.

Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.

Schweitzer rapidly gained prominence as a musical scholar and organist, dedicated also to the rescue, restoration and study of historic pipe organs.

The Choir Organ at St. Thomas, Strasbourg, designed in 1905 on principles defined by Albert Schweitzer.

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

Schweitzer also studied piano under Isidor Philipp, head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory.

In 1905 Widor and Schweitzer were among the six musicians who founded the Paris Bach Society, a choir dedicated to performing J. S.

Bach's music, for whose concerts Schweitzer took the organ part regularly until 1913.