The Nobel prize winner Albert Schweitzer is remembered as a great humanist who helped heal the sick and poor over decades in Africa. But the doctor is also shadowed by paternalist views. Numerous ...
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) is the epitome of a selfless doctor. Stories of doctors practicing humanitarian medicine often come with the epithet ‘the Schweitzer of ~.’ Schweitzer began his medical ...
When Albert Schweitzer died in 1965, the doctor from Alsace-Lorraine was held up to the world over as a paradigm of goodness. He was a European who sacrificed a life of comfort to tend to the sick, ...
The Aspen Times: Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s legacy and historic visit Aspen to be celebrated in Aspen and Basalt
The legacy of Dr. Albert Schweitzer will be honored in the Roaring Fork Valley with two days of public events in Basalt and Aspen on June 30 and July 1, commemorating the 150th anniversary of his ...
Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s legacy and historic visit Aspen to be celebrated in Aspen and Basalt
The presence of Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Aspen during the first week of July 1949 was significant. He was the keynote speaker for the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation, which essentially launched the ...
Editor’s note: This story is the first of a four-part Aspen Journalism series detailing Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s 1949 visit to Aspen to keynote the Goethe Bicentennial convocation, and examining the ...
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part Aspen Journalism series on Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s visit to Aspen, where he gave the keynote address at the Goethe Bicentennial of 1949 and ...