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Head of Albert Schweitzer cast in plaster with a bronze finish and mounted on the original base identifying Albert Schweitzer. Signed by the artist Leo Cherne and dated 1955.
Size: H. 13.5" x L. 3.75" x H. 3.75" Weight: 9lbs 6oz Condition: Very good, noting a few tiny areas of loss to finish and a loss behind his left ear 3/4" x 3/8". Albert Schweitzer OM (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire. Schweitzer, a Lutheran, challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view. He depicted Jesus as one who literally believed the end of the world was coming in his own lifetime and believed himself to be a world savior. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life",[1] expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement (Orgelbewegung). Leo Cherne...Leo Cherne (September 8, 1912, Bronx, New York—January 12, 1999) was an American economist, public servant and commentator. He graduated from New York Law School in 1935. His career spanned more than fifty years. Cherne, an economist and attorney, was a public policy expert who became a principal co-anchor of ABC-TV's All-Star News, the first hour-long prime time nightly network news broadcast, in the 1952-53 television season. While not a ratings success against entertainment programs on NBC and CBS, All-Star News is credited as pointing the way toward the format later used by long-form local news broadcasts in cities across America in the 1960s and beyond, and by CNN and other national and international cable news networks since 1980. Cherne later gained prominence in the private sector as Executive Director of the Research Institute of America, founded to translate complex government legislation for the businessman; Chairman of the Executive Committee of Freedom House, established to advance the struggle for freedom at home and abroad; and Chairman of the International Rescue Committee, formed to assist democratic leaders, scholars, and others to escape Fascism, Communism, and other forms of totalitarianism. He maintained these positions for the greater part of his career. Cherne also served many Presidents, from Roosevelt to Bush, in a variety of capacities, including memberships on the U.S. Select Committee for Western Hemisphere Immigration and the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, as well as his activities on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB). He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Cherne was famously quoted stating "The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation." This sentiment is echoed by most IT scholars. Condition reportVery good, noting a few tiny areas of loss to finish and a loss behind his left ear 3/4" x 3/8".
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