Creator:
Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965.
Inclusive Dates:
1896- 1965
Abstract:
Papers of the theologian, philosopher, physician, organist, and music scholar; born in Alsace, France. Founded a missionary hospital in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his advocacy of the brotherhood of nations. Collection includes correspondence (1901-1965); 123 notebooks (1918-1965); manuscript essays and lectures on religion, philosophy, and medicine; and sermons. Correspondence includes nearly 1400 letters between Schweitzer and wife Hélène Bresslau (1901-1939); 396 letters (1950-1965) written in German to Erica Anderson; 180 letters to daughter Rhena Schweitzer Miller; and 70 letters to various recipients, including 3 to Rudolf Bultmann. Notebooks document Schweitzer's daily life in Lambaréné, the diseases and stories of his patients, and the arrival of visitors to the mission. They also contain poems, quotations, excerpts from books on philosophy, religion, and history; clippings from French, German, English, and African newspapers; reports on world politics; and commentaries on himself and his work.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Essays.
Lectures.
Notebooks.
Sermons.
Subject:
Gabon -- Description and travel.
Lambaréné (Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon)
Missionaries.
Musicians.
Physicians.
Theologians.
Music
Religion and Philosophy
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform
Humanists.
Missionaries, Medical.
Missions -- Gabon.
Missions, Medical -- Gabon.
Organists.
Philosophers.
Theologians.
Creator:
Szasz, Thomas Stephen, 1920-2012.
Inclusive Dates:
1890- 2011
Abstract:
Papers of the Hungarian-American psychiatrist and scholar.
Collection contains correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, writings, audio and video recordings.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Articles.
Audiocassettes.
Awards.
Book reviews.
Briefs (legal documents)
CDs.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Conference proceedings.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
DVDs.
Essays.
Galley proofs.
Interviews.
Manuscripts for publication.
Negatives (photographs)
Passports.
Photographs.
Plaques (flat objects)
Postcards.
Posters.
Proofs (printed matter)
Reprints.
Research notes.
Royalty statements.
Slides (photographs)
Sound recordings.
Speeches (documents)
Transcriptions.
VHS.
Video recordings.
Subject:
Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
National review (New York)
New England journal of medicine.
New republic (Washington, D.C.)
New York times.
Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
The Humanist (Washington, D.C.)
The Lancet (London)
Physicians.
Psychiatrists.
Psychotherapists.
Religion and philosophy
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform
Addiction.
Antipsychiatry.
Circumcision.
Drug control.
Drug legalization.
Drugs -- Law and legislation.
Homosexuality.
Humanism.
Hungarian Americans.
Involuntary treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Involuntary treatment -- Law and legislation.
Insanity (Law)
Insanity defense.
Mental illness.
Law -- Philosophy.
Pain -- Psychological aspects.
Psychiatric ethics.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Psychiatrists -- United States.
Psychiatry -- Congresses.
Psychiatry -- Germany.
Psychiatry -- South Africa.
Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
Psychiatry -- United States.
Psychoanalysis -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Psychoanalysis and homosexuality.
Public policy -- United States.
Radicalism -- History -- 20th century.
Schizophrenia.
Scientology.
Social psychiatry.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects.
War on drugs.