Albert Schweitzer was born on January 14, 1875  in Kayersberg, Elsass, Germany (now France).   Schweitzer established a reputation in the areas of philosophy, theology, and music but is remembered mostly today as one of the world's great humanitarians.  He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1952 for his work at his hospital mission in Africa.  Schweizer completed a doctorate in philosophy in 1899 at the University of Strassburg and a doctorate in theology in 1900.  After establishing his reputation as a world class theologian ("Von Reimarus zu Wrede", 1906) and a musician with great respect, he decided that he had to devote his life more directly to the service of humanity.  He returned to school and earned a doctorate in medicine in 1913.  He then went to Africa and spent the remainder of his life in medical and theological service to the people there.  Although periodically criticized in the later 20th century, his thinking has continued to have wide ranging impact in the contemporary world.  His book, "Kulturphilosophie", 1923, contains the basis of his philosophical views, including his basic sense of "reverence for life".