![]() ![]() Over the next three decades, Schweitzer made frequent visits to Europe to lecture on culture and ethics. Released in 1918, they returned to Lambarene in 1924. ![]() ![]() When World War I broke out, the German-born Schweitzers were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war. Medical degree in hand, Schweitzer and his wife, Helene Bresslau, moved to French Equatorial Africa where he founded a hospital at Lambarene (modern-day Gabon). in 1913, the overachieving Schweitzer had published several books, including the influential The Quest for the Historical Jesus and a book on the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Schweitzer was also an acclaimed concert organist who played professional engagements to earn money for his education. ![]() After working as a pastor, he entered medical school in 1905 with the dream of becoming a missionary in Africa. The son and grandson of ministers, Schweitzer studied theology and philosophy at the universities of Strasbourg, Paris and Berlin. The theologian, musician, philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning physician Albert Schweitzer is born on Januin Upper-Alsace, Germany (now Haut-Rhin, France). ![]()
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