Meet Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1952. Although he was highly gifted in science, theology, and music and as an author, Schweitzer dedicated the last six decades of his life to medicine and to a hospital he founded with his wife, Helene Breslau, in French Equatorial Africa, the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. A true humanitarian, he used his Nobel Prize stipend to expand the hospital and to build new facilities for leprosy patients. The Johns Hopkins University Press published several of Schweitzer's books, including The Quest of the Historical Jesus, The Primeval Forest, and The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle.

Published Works

Out of My Life and Thought
An Autobiography

Albert Schweitzer
foreword by Nobel Laureate and Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
new foreword by Lachlan Forrow, M.D.

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The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle

Albert Schweitzer
translated by William Montgomery
introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan

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The Primeval Forest

Albert Schweitzer
with a new foreword by William H. Foege, M.D.

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The Quest of the Historical Jesus
A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede

Albert Schweitzer
with a new foreword by Delbert R. Hillers

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