Albert Schweitzer -- scientist, doctor, philosopher, theologian, author, musician and Nobel Peace Prize winner -- was long revered for his humanitarian work in Africa. The clinic he set up in ...

“Albert Schweitzer was the rock star of his day ... The contribution pledged to his bush hospital in Africa was Schweitzer’s compensation for bringing Goethe to Aspen through a studied ...

he was influenced by the ongoing and brutal colonialization of large parts of Africa by European countries. Albert Schweitzer sits in the grounds of the hospital he founded at Lambarene ...

Schweitzer, marked by his flowing mustache and thick head of white hair, was a paternalist who saw himself as being on a kind of "civilizing mission" in Africa. He felt called upon to make the ...