Albert Schweitzer, with his wife and medical partner, Helene Bresslau, in 1913, the year they established their first mission hospital at Lambarene, GabonImage: Courtesy Everett Collection/picture ...

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part Aspen Journalism series on Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s visit to ...

Albert Schweitzer From his keynote address, Goethe Bicentennial, Aspen, 1949 The high ideals of Dr. Albert Schweitzer ...

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 ...

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 ...