A Public Committee for the 2025-2035 Decade of Albert Schweitzer is establishing
Cluster Sofia Knowledge City supports the initiative of its members InnoBiz Academy and Association Treatment of COVID-19 with Convalescent Plasma to implement "2025-2035 - Decade of Dr. Albert Schweitzer", aimed at preserving and developing the legacy of the eminent winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1952.
We are creating a Public Committee to celebrate the decade of this remarkable person and invite representatives of science and education to join us.
In 2025, humanity celebrates 150 years since the birth and 60 years since the death of this influential scientist, physician, philosopher, theologian, musician, writer and organist Dr. Schweitzer.
In 1957, Schweitzer published his famous "Address to Humanity", in which he called for an end to nuclear weapons experiments. Two years later, Schweitzer finally settled in Lambaréné, Gabon where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. Schweitzer was the winner of two prestigious awards. In 1928, he was awarded the Frankfurt Goethe Prize, and in 1952, he became a laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize. With the funds from the first, he built a rest home in Grünsbach for the staff of the hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. He invested the monetary equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the construction of a boarding house for lepers in Lambaréné.
When he was in Europe, he spared no effort to realize his cultural mission "to heal old musical instruments and organs". As an encyclopedist and organ restoration technologist, he created an entire school of organ building, and with his numerous charity concerts he financed his medical activities in Africa. A remarkable person who deserves to be honored in a fitting way.
During the Schweitzer decade, research and creation of a specialty "Organ Building" in Bulgaria are planned. The idea is supported by educators such as Prof. Neva Krasteva, a member of the Bach Society, musicologist Assoc. Prof. Mihail Lukanov from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, organ builders such as Rosen Draganov from the "Earth and People" Museum, as well as a number of our prominent performers of baroque music. During his lifetime, the popular organist and musician Yanko Marinov was among the supporters of this idea, and today his untimely death is an inspiration for the creation of this Committee.
Organ building requires multidisciplinary knowledge and is a real challenge for Bulgaria, where over 70 organs of different sizes and types need constant maintenance and tuning.
The Public Committee for the Decade of Albert Schweitzer will begin its work in June, 2025.
Join us!!
Contact: Boris Dishev, phone +359 898 780 380, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
