Albert and Helene Schweitzer

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Title

Albert and Helene Schweitzer
Physical Description

1 photograph : black-and-white
Date

cir1920?
Place of Publication

Bern (Switzerland)
Summary

Albert Schweitzer and his wife Helene, née Bresslau on Riedweg in Bern, Switzerland.
Depicted

Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965
Subject

Portraits, Couples; Nobel Prize winners; Physicians; Organists; Musicians; Missionaries
Genre

Photographs
Part Of

Gertrud Kurth Collection, AR 10905
Accession Number
URL

https://www.lbi.org/griffinger/record/229888

Biographical/Historical Information

Albert Schweitzer was a physician, Protestant theologian, organist, and missionary, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, primarily for his work at his hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa (Gabon), which he had founded in 1913. Albert Schweitzer was born in Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine in 1875, and he died in Lambaréné, Gabon in 1965.

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Albert and Helene Schweitzer, Leo Baeck Institute, F 26249.

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