Creator:
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.
Inclusive Dates:
1905- 1993
Abstract:
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Records
includes Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Records (office files, board of directors records,
financial records, programs and projects, and publications); Albert Schweitzer Hospital
records (communications, medical reports, publications, hospital construction including
photographs, blueprints, and financial records, U.S. A.I.D. grant, subject files);
Association internationale de l'Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (communications, subject files,
publications); Albert Schweitzer Center records (communications and publications);
Schweitzer Memorabilia (Albert Schweitzer documents, Helene Schweitzer documents,
Schweitzer-related materials, material by and about Schweitzer in various languages).
Correspondents include Erica Anderson, Theodor Binder, Jorge Bird, Julius Seelye Bixler,
E. Gaine Cannon, Frank Catchpool, Norman Cousins, A.R.T. Denues, Lee and Dottie Ellerbrock,
Ford Foundation, Maurice Frey, Lawrence Gussman, Hermann Hagedore, Jerome Hill, Homer A.
Jack, Charles Joy, George T. Keating, Reinhard N. Lahde, Leif Erikson Foundation, Charles
Lowe, Hans Margolius, Emmy Martin, Louis Mayer, William Maul Measey, William Larimer Mellon,
Joseph F. Montague, Edouard Nies-Berger, Simon Obame-Bikoro, Leslie Paffrath, Laura Person,
R.P. Dominique Pire, Fergus Pope, Thomas D. Rees, Myrta Ross, Ali Silver, Ruth Sloan, Keith
Smith, Isaac N.P. Stokes, Margaret S. Tenbrinck, Paul Dudley White, Andre Wick, V. McKinley
Wiles, and Elizabeth L. Young.
Type of Material:
Agendas (administrative records)
Articles.
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drawings (visual works)
Financial records.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Manuscripts for publication.
Medical records.
Minutes (administrative records)
Photographs.
Professional papers.
Project files.
Publications.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Activism and social reform
Religion and philosophy
Science and medicine
Charities, Medical.
Endowments -- United States.
Voluntary hospitals -- Gabon.
Humanitarianism.
Missionaries, Medical.
Missions, Medical -- Gabon.
Peace -- Societies, etc.
Creator:
Davenport, Manuel.
Inclusive Dates:
1960- 2000
Abstract:
Manuel Davenport's materials relating to Albert Schweitzer
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Adult education
Religion and philosophy
Science and medicine
Missionaries, Medical.
Philosophers.
Theologians.
Creator:
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Papers of the English physician and author. Missionary to Labrador and Newfoundland who initiated child welfare work and built several hospitals and orphanages. Signed pen and ink sketch, "A Christmas Dinner in Labrador."
Type of Material:
Drawings (visual works)
Subject:
Authors.
Physicians.
Science and medicine
Authors, English.
Missionaries, Medical.
Creator:
Lemke, Antje Bultmann.
Inclusive Dates:
1907- 2003
Abstract:
Research material and memorabilia relating to Albert Schweitzer and his work, amassed by Schweitzer admirer and collector Antje Bultmann Lemke; also some original Helene Schweitzer material including journals and correspondence
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Posters.
Portraits.
Research notes.
Subject:
Out of my life and thought: an autobiography.
The Albert Schweitzer-Helene Bresslau letters 1902-1912.
Archivists.
Librarians.
Biographers.
Biography
Science and medicine
Religion and philosophy
Missionaries, Medical.
Creator:
Reitzer, Johanna M.
Inclusive Dates:
1949- 1975
Abstract:
Scrapbook of clippings, correspondence, printed material.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Reprints.
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Subject:
Lambaréné (Moyen-Ogooué) -- Gabon.
Missionaries.
Physicians.
Religion and Philosophy
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform
Missionaries, Medical.
Missions, Medical -- Gabon.
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:
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth.
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Newsletters, clippings, correspondence, books relating to theologian, philosopher, physician, organist, and music scholar Albert Schweitzer.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Subject:
Religion and Philosophy
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform
Humanists.
Missionaries, Medical.