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
Lambaréné
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Lambaréné is a town and the capital of Moyen-Ogooué in Gabon. It has a population of 38,775 as of 2013, and is located 75 kilometres south of the equator.
Albert Schweitzer
…of "Reverence for Life". His philosophy was expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced…
Street in Lambaréné
Grave of Albert Schweitzer at the hospital