The Nobel prize winner Albert Schweitzer is remembered as a great humanist who helped heal the sick and poor over decades in Africa. But the doctor is also shadowed by paternalist views.

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 ...

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 ...