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Today (January 14, 1875) is the birthday of Albert Schweitzer, winner of the Nobel Prize for his medical work with humanity.

Today (January 14, 1875) is the birthday of Albert Schweitzer, winner of the Nobel Prize for his medical work with humanity.

Albert Schweitzer was born on January 14, 1875, into a family that had excelled in music education for generations. At the age of 18, he studied music formally with professionals in Paris. In 1893 he received a doctorate in Bible education from the University of Strasburg. Enlisted in the Army in 1894. In 1898 he went to Paris to study Kant's philosophy and graduate. He holds a PhD in Philosophy, Music and Christianity. He studied again for seven years and received his doctorate in medicine. He also travelled to Paris to study tropical diseases. At the age of 37, he married a charitable woman named Kelen Phrasal.

Switzer, who graduated from medical school in 1911, decided to move to Lambourne, a city where he worked to educate aboriginal Africans living in poverty and disease. Friends and relatives opposed the decision and tried to stop him. Switzer disregarded their advice and set up a small hospital in a tree-lined building in the woods of Lombardy to treat patients. He treated the Negro people who lived there with typhoid fever and leprosy. Switzerland was placed under house arrest by the French government because he was German and at that time was hostile to Germany and France during World War I. Interfered with the medical work he did. Due to the lack of adequate financial resources, medicines and medical equipment, he travelled to many countries to preach Christianity through his sermons.

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With the money and materials he earned from the trip, he expanded the hospital in Lombardy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1952 for his 40 years of philanthropic work with humanity. Only those who know how to do charity for others will find true happiness. Those who do not show compassion and love to all living beings cannot find peace. Man belongs to the whole of the human race. Each is indebted to the other. Only when we count ourselves can we realize the priceless value of our lives and the purpose of life. The result of this thinking seems to be respected for other lives.

Switzer lamented that Western civilization was being destroyed without following morals. He said that there is no such thing as a moral thread in the world of Tirukkuṟaḷ. He refused animal food and ate vegetable food. Honorary degrees were awarded at various universities. Towards the end of his life, he spoke out against atomic bomb production, tests and nuclear weapons. He was awarded the Frankfurt Goethe Prize, the Nobel Prize (1952), and the Kroner Sanning Prize for One Lakh Denmark. Albert Switzer, the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Humanitarian Medicine, passed away on September 4, 1965, at the age of 90 in a hospital he had built and maintained in Africa.

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