Feb 14, 2023 · Schweitzer, he reckoned, was a racist of the benevolent kind. In Docteur Schweitzer, une Icône Africaine, Augustin Émane, who was born at Lambaréné and now …

Though he was a man of legendary virtues, did Albert Schweitzer really understand the Africans among whom he lived for much of his life?

“The Lucky Country” was a 1964 book by Donald Horne, an anti-apartheid leftist, in which he "analysed" the reasons for Australia's "good luck" whilst avoiding the truth that a mass influx of …

Feb 2, 2016 · Schweitzer developed his philosophy of “Reverence for Life” (Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben) and forsook what could have been an existence of comfortable celebrity to live and die …

Albert Schweitzer supervised the building of a hospital in Gabon, West Africa, 1954. Albert Schweitzer—the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, theologian, musician and “medical missionary” …

Jan 15, 2025 · Lachlan Forrow, president of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, wrote "This quote is utterly false and is an outrageously inaccurate picture of Dr. Schweitzer’s view of Africans. …

It is more than fifty years since Albert Schweitzer went to Lambaréné, in what is now Gabon, to practice medicine and found a hospital. In that time he has become a symbol, to a large white …

Jun 20, 2016 · This work analyses Albert Schweitzer's complex relationship to Africa, and places him within the context of medical missionizing. Although he worked in Africa for over fifty …

Jan 23, 2014 · A lbert Schweitzer — the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, theologian, musician and “medical missionary” who spent decades in West Africa — was one of the most recognized …

But what was involved in Schweitzer's relationship with Africa was not just re-ligion. It was also race. As a European in the first half of the twentieth century, was Albert Schweitzer also a …