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 ...

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

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

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part Aspen Journalism series on Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s visit to Aspen, where he gave the keynote address at the Goethe Bicentennial of ...

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 ...

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 ...