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Reverence for Life in Schweitzer’s World and Work
Albert Schweitzer emerged as a Nobel laureate famed for reverence for life built on love and toughness. A theologian turned physician, he spent decades in a leper hospital in equatorial Africa with his wife Helene, facing critics over methods and politics while shaping a lifelong humanitarian legacy.
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Albert Schweitzer
United Press International
Schweitzer
Equator
Helene
South Africa
United Nations
Congo
Africa
Frederick Franck
Kayserberg
Alsace
Germany
University of Strasbourg
Emmanuel Kant
Bach
Lambarene
French Equatorial
United States
Oslo
Nobel Assembly