Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer, OM, (January 14, 1875 - September 4, 1965) was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaysersberg, Upper-Alsace, Germany (now Haut-Rhin département, France). He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.

Selected bibliography

• The Decay and the Restoration of Civilization (1923)
• Civilization and Ethics (1923)
• Indian Thought and Its Development (1935)
• The Kingdom of God and Primitive Christianity (publ.1967)
• My Life and Thought (1931) (autobiography. according to the preface of the reviewed edition: Henry Holt and Company, 1991, Schweitzer personally considered to be his most important book)
• Peace or Atomic War 1958
• Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography by Albert Schweitzer ISBN 0801860970
• The Quest Of The Historical Jesus; A Critical Study Of Its Progress From Reimarus To Wrede