{"id":1822,"date":"2008-12-30T22:50:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T20:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2014-02-03T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T07:23:04","slug":"did-karl-barth-and-albert-schweitzer-ever-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/12\/did-karl-barth-and-albert-schweitzer-ever-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer ever meet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This question goes back nearly 20 years when I asked Professor Busch (who wrote a most insightful biography on Karl Barth<\/a>) as I couldn’t find anything neither in G\u00fcnsbach nor in Z\u00fcrich where most of Schweitzer’s writing are being stored. But now – equipped with a national license to the digital Barth library<\/a>– I found a letter of Barth to Thurneysen that makes such a meeting likely in November 1928<\/p>\n

\nBarth – 15. November 1928
\nLieber Eduard [Thurneysen]
\n…
\nVor 8 Tagen habe ich unsern Zeitgenossen Albert Schweitzer hier in meinem Studierzimmer und in seinem Lambarenevortrag erlebt. Ich teilte ihm freundlich mit, das sei “saftige Werkgerechtigkeit” und er sei ein Mensch des 18. Jahrhunderts, und im \u00fcbrigen unterhielten und verst\u00e4ndigten wir uns dann sehr gut. Es hat keinen Sinn, mit ihm zanken zu wollen. Er sieht auch sich selber relativ wie alles und alle, und da\u00df man mitleidig sein soll, ist ja sicher wahr und auch f\u00fcr uns immer wieder zu bedenken.
\n…
\nIch mu\u00df ins Kolleg. Ich rede heute \u00fcber die Sch\u00e4dlichkeit zeitloser Wahrheiten.
\nHerzlichst (Gru\u00df an Marguerite!) Dein Karl\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

which is possible also from Schweitzer’s diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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This question goes back nearly 20 years when I asked Professor Busch (who wrote a most insightful biography on Karl Barth) as I couldn’t find anything neither in G\u00fcnsbach nor in Z\u00fcrich where most of Schweitzer’s writing are being stored. But now – equipped with a national license to the digital Barth library– I found … Continue reading Did Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer ever meet?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2314,45,2313],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-eberhard-busch","tag-karl-barth","tag-albert-schweitzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6710,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}