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
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer
…The Hôpital Albert Schweitzer is a hospital that was established in 1913 by Albert Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau Schweitzer in Lambaréné, Gabon. Albert Schweitzer opened a hospital in 1913 in Lambaréné in what was then French Equatorial Africa that became Gabon, where he ran…
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