Schweitzer, Albert

1875 – He was born on the 14th day of January this year.

1953 - He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "reverence for life"

1906 - He published his first major work, “The quest of the Historical Jesus.”

1908 – He advocated this new style, which has had great influence in the way Bach's music is now being treated.

1911 - He established his reputation further as a New Testament scholar with other theological studies including his medical degree dissertation, Psychiatric Study of Jesus.

1913 - He went there with his wife to establish a hospital near an already existing mission post.

1914 – He was a German in a French colony.

1918 - He was a free man again, and while working as a medical assistant and assistant-pastor in Strasburg, he was able to finish the book.

1924 - He returned to Lambaréné, where he managed to rebuild the decayed hospital, after which he resumed his medical practices.

1939 - He stayed in Lambaréné, unable to go back to Europe in war.

1948 - He returned for the first time to Europe and kept traveling back and forth (and once to the USA) as long as he could until his death in 1965.

1952 – He worked against nuclear tests and nuclear weapons with Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell.

1957 – He was one of the founders of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.

1958 - He broadcast four speeches over Radio Oslo which were published in Peace or Atomic War.

1965 – He died on the 4th day of September this year in Lambaréné, Gabon.