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Schweitzer

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Schweit·zer (shwtsr, shvt-), Albert 1875-1965.
French philosopher, physician, and musician who founded (1913) and spent much of his life at a missionary hospital in present-day Gabon. He won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.


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00 Paperback CT1018 This is the autobiography of Nobel Peace Laureate Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), published in commemoration of Schweitzer's 1949 visit to the United States.
1965: Albert Schweitzer, French medical missionary, died aged 90 in Gabon, in the village where he had opened his hospital for natives.
1965:Albert Schweitzer, French medical missionary, died aged 90 in Gabon, the village where he had opened his hospital for natives.
 
 
 
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