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.
Street in Lambaréné
Grave of Albert Schweitzer at the hospital
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
Lambaréné
…north of Gabon. The main economic activity in the town is the fishery and a new port is under construction. The Franco-German Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) founded his hospital in Lambaréné in 1913. Today, the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer comprises departments of Internal Medicine, Surgery…
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