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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2017

Spalte:

1367–1369

Kategorie:

Dogmen- und Theologiegeschichte

Autor/Hrsg.:

Oermann, Nils Ole

Titel/Untertitel:

Albert Schweitzer. A Biography.

Verlag:

Oxford u. a.: Oxford University Press 2017. 352 S. Geb. US$ 45,00. ISBN 978-0-19-878422-7.

Rezensent:

James Carleton Paget

The book under review is essentially a translation, with only minor changes, of Nils Ole Oermann’s successful biography of Schweitzer, which appeared first in German in 2009 (Albert Schweitzer: eine Biographie [Munich: Beck]), and is now in its 5th edition.
In broad terms the work is laid out chronologically. Schweitzer’s early life in his parents’ manse in rural Alsace, near Colmar, is cov-ered relatively swiftly and more or less in accord with things which Schweitzer himself presents in his autobiography of 1924, Aus meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit, a work which reflects some of the qualities of a homily and is loosely based upon discussions Schweitzer had with the Freudian Lutheran pastor, Oskar Pfister, which the latter had hoped to publish, no doubt in a ...


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