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 ...

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 ...