The Nobel prize winner Albert Schweitzer is remembered as a great humanist who helped heal the sick and poor over decades in ...

Editor’s note: This story is the first of a four-part Aspen Journalism series detailing Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s 1949 visit to ...

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 ...