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Summary:Here in the African jungle, where he had established his famous hospital and leper colony in 1913, Albert Schweitzer died at the age of 90, on September 4 1965. Schweitzer was an intellectual giant. He held doctorates in philosophy and theology, was widely qualified in medicine and was acclaimed as the world's finest interpreter of Bach organ works before he turned his back on music to tend the sick. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1952.
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