He recognized a vocation to this role after having been moved by a Strassburg statue of an African, and he chose for his work a site called Lambar én é in Gabon, in French Equatorial Africa. After having shown his ability to excel in philosophy, theology, and music, Schweitzer felt a call to become a physician so that he could address human suffering. It was these African endeavors that made a world citizen out of Schweitzer and that led to his winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. Schweitzer later took a zinc-lined organ with him to the damp climate of equatorial Africa and occasionally returned to his G ünsbach bench and performed elsewhere in Europe to raise funds for his African ventures.
Regarded by his teachers and critics as a man with sufficient talent to be world-renowned as an organ performer, he chose instead to write on the almost mystical spirituality of Bach. Between 19 he began making intensive studies and contributions to the literature on Johann Sebastian Bach, whose organ music he also edited. Yet philosophy and theology could not contain all his energies, some of which he directed to music.
In 1899 Schweitzer received a doctorate in philosophy and in 1900 a doctorate in theology from Strassburg. This locale, which included his childhood hometown of G ünsbach, and his university city, Strassburg, later became part of France. Schweitzer was born in a Lutheran parsonage in Kaysersberg, Upper Alsace, which was then in Germany. SCHWEITZER, ALBERT (1875 –1965), was philosopher, theologian, musicologist, and humanitarian physician.
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