Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965). Alsatian theologian, medical missionary, and organist. He is chiefly remembered as a missionary, running both a hospital, which he founded with his wife in 1913, and also a leper colony at Lambarene in Gabon, West Africa. He used the money raised by his organ recitals for his medical work and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. He wrote a biography of J. S. Bach, as well as a number of religious and philosophical works.
