Stump the German

[L Verge]

So far, I'm avoiding Google! The last quote, however, seems to indicate that it was made during a war crisis - probably one of the World Wars? May I ask if that is a clue?

[Gene C]

Same person for all quotes?
Are we talking about someone of the Lincoln era?

Sounds like something Winston Churchill might say.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Yes, the same person, Gene. Churchill is a good guess, but sorry, not correct. Laurie is closer to the era (re. the last quote). Thanks for holding back on googling.

Hint #1: The person's lecture on "The Problem of Peace" is considered one of the best speeches ever given.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Hint #2: He was an accomplished organist and also wrote books on Bach. (He wrote books on other topics, too.)

[Eva Elisabeth]

Hint #3: The press typically described him as "merry, vigorous and full of Gallic wit", with a "wrinkled face beneath a shock of graying hair", and a "scraggly walrus moustache sprouted beneath his big nose"; dressed "in the style of fifty years ago". 

[RJNorton]

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats."

I have no idea so this is a very, very wild guess. I know in 2014 when you traveled the state of Florida you said you went to Ernest Hemingway's home in Key West. When I think of that home I think of cats. So I will guess Ernest Hemingway.

[Eva Elisabeth]

This is an outstanding guess, Roger, but, sorry, not correct.

Hint #4: Like Hemingway, this person once received the Nobel Prize, but in a different category.

Hint #5: The person believed "there was more reverence for life in America than anywhere else in the world."

[Rogerm]

Albert Schweizer?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Brilliant, Roger - that is correct! I just was going to post a "peep" on this photo:
   

Please check out the following links, it's worth it!!!

Here is some info about his letters to Eisenhower and Kennedy on the danger of nuclear weapons:
http://www.schweitzer.org/2012/en/work-a...atomic-war

His Nobel Prize lecturem:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/p...cture.html

Some of his wonderful quotes:
http://mobile.brainyquote.com/quotes/aut...zer_3.html

I loved to read this account of his only trip to the USA:
http://home.pcisys.net/~jnf/usvisit.html#VisitBefore

Finally please DON'T MISS this video of him with hungry kitty and fly, playing Bach on his piano in Lambarene:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2lRwGXkr3A

[Eva Elisabeth]

Finally please DON'T MISS this video of him with hungry kitty and fly, playing Bach on his piano in Lambarene:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2lRwGXkr3A

(Isn't the kitty cute??)

[RJNorton]

(Isn't the kitty cute??)

Yes!

[Eva Elisabeth]

Indeed! Seems it likes Bach!

[Eva Elisabeth]

Congrats to the USA for stumping and beating the Germans - well deserved!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soc.../71027686/
(And Klinsi is just the better coach IMO...)

You stumped the Germans again:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...op-2-teams
Congrats! Well deserved! Now go for the cup!!!

[RJNorton]

You are very gracious, Eva. Thank you. Germany and the USA are the two top-rated women's soccer teams in the world. It was a great victory for the Americans. Now we will wait and see if we play Japan or England on Sunday.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Kudos to beating Japan 5:2, and winning the cup!!!