This week in Christian history: Gender neutral Bible, Albert Schweitzer, Protestant goes to China

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Sunday, September 01, 2019

Albert Schweitzer dies – September 4, 1965

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), a Noble Peace Prize-winning doctor and theologian who authored the 1906 book 'The Quest of the Historical Jesus.' — Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), a Noble Peace Prize-winning doctor and theologian who authored the 1906 book "The Quest of the Historical Jesus." | Wikimedia Commons

This week marks the anniversary of the death of Albert Schweitzer, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning theologian, musician, and doctor.

A native of a small village in Alsace, then controlled by Germany, Schweitzer became known for his medical work in Africa, which he began shortly before the start of the First World War.

“Schweitzer entered into his intensive theological studies in 1893 at the University of Strasbourg where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1899, with a dissertation on the religious philosophy of Kant, and received his licentiate in theology in 1900,” explained the Nobel organization.

“He began preaching at St. Nicholas Church in Strasbourg in 1899; he served in various high ranking administrative posts from 1901 to 1912 in the Theological College of St.Thomas, the college he had attended at the University of Strasbourg.”

He was also the author of the 1906 book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, a well-known examination of historical research on Jesus Christ.