Out of my Life and Thought. by Schweitzer, Albert - 1937: An Autobiography. Translated by C. T. Campion.

1937. New York, H. Holt, 1937. 21 cm. 274 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing of frontcover and spine. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen - Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown. Albert Schweitzer, OM (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a French-German theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of “being in Christ” as primary and the doctrine of Justification by Faith as secondary. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life”, expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ Reform Movement (Orgelbewegung).