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Albert Schweitzer was born in Kaysersberg, Alsace, Germany on January 14, 1875. His father was an Evangelical Lutheran minister who soon moved the family to the village of Gunsbach where young Schweitzer lived until the age of nine.
In 1885 he was sent to live with his great uncle in Mulhouse so that he could study at the school there. Until his graduation in 1893, Schweitzer lived by the stern, unfrivolous standards of his great uncle's generation an experience that intensified his interest in politics, theology and other serious concerns. It was during these years that he undertook lessons from the master organist Eugene Munch.
In the fall of 1893, he enrolled in the University of Strasbourg where he remained until 1914 except for a year's military service. During the first 12 years he studied theology and...