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Albert Schweitzer

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Noun1.Albert Schweitzer - French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965)


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00 Paperback CT1018 This is the autobiography of Nobel Peace Laureate Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), published in commemoration of Schweitzer's 1949 visit to the United States.
TA L E Julian His parents signed him up for piano lessons just after his seventh birthday and three years later he made his London concert debut performing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, pieces by Chopin and Rachmaninov and his transcription of a Bach organ piece he'd devised after listening to an old Albert Schweitzer recording.
1965: Albert Schweitzer, French medical missionary, died aged 90 in Gabon, in the village where he had opened his hospital for natives.
 
 
 
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