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|description = Albert Schweitzer was an Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaisersberg in Alsace-Lorraine, a bilingual Romano-Germanic region which France regained from Germany after World War I. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of historical Jesus current at his time and the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus who expected the imminent end of the world. {{Wikipediarefb}}
|description = An Alsatian humanitarian and theologian, winner of a Nobel Peace Prize
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==Works==
*[[The Quest of the Historical Jesus]], 1906

===Letters===
*[[John F. Kennedy response to Albert Schweitzer]], 1962

==Works about Schweitzer==
*[[Nobel Prize acceptance speech (Schweitzer)|Nobel Prize acceptance speech]]
[[Category:French authors]]
[[Category:Theologians]]
[[Category:Philosophers]]
[[Category:Order of Merit]]
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Albert Schweitzer
(1875–1965)

Albert Schweitzer was an Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaisersberg in Alsace-Lorraine, a bilingual Romano-Germanic region which France regained from Germany after World War I. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of historical Jesus current at his time and the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus who expected the imminent end of the world.

Albert Schweitzer

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