Albert Schweitzer
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer was a German polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer ch
Schweitzer in 1955
Albert Schweitzer's birthplace in Kaysersberg, now in Alsace in France
Schweitzer in 1912. Oil on canvas painting by Émile Schneider, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Choir Organ at St Thomas' Church, Strasbourg, designed in 1905 on principles defined by Schweitzer
Helene Bresslau Schweitzer
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Helene Bresslau Schweitzer was a German medical missionary, nurse, social worker, linguist, public medicine enthusiast, editor, feminist, sociologist, and the wife/confidant of Albert Schweitzer, who
Albert Schweitzer
…published in English in 1948 as The Psychiatric Study of Jesus. Exposition and Criticism. He defended Jesus' mental health in it. In June 1912, he married Helene Bresslau, municipal inspector for orphans and daughter of the Jewish pan-Germanist historian Harry Bresslau. In 1912, now armed with a medical degree, Schweitzer…
Helene and her husband Albert
University of Strasbourg, where Schweitzer took courses in medieval, modern, and art history
The Ogooué River flowing past Lambaréné
The Schweitzer house and Museum at Königsfeld in the Black Forest