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unusual facts about Schweitzer


Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Gundelfingen

Its Australian partner school for the exchange program for female participants is the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School.


Albert Schweitzer Hospital

The hospital is supported by the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, which was founded during 1940 in the United States to support Dr. Schweitzer's medical work in Africa during World War II.

The Albert Schweitzer Hospital was established in 1913 by Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné, Gabon.

Armin D. Lehmann

In the cause of peace, Lehmann traveled to more than 150 countries, speaking out for non-violence, tolerance, and understanding with such other voices as Nehru and Schweitzer to all who would listen.

Edmund Schweitzer

Along with his wife, Beatriz, Schweitzer has donated thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

Eric Stern

Eric A. Stern, Senior Counselor to the Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer

Helena Sá e Costa

She taught in the Lisbon and Porto conservatories, and gained international recognition as an outstanding teacher, leading to invitations to oversee courses in Cascais, Espinho, Estoril, Salzburg (Austria), Gunsbach (Albert Schweitzer Centre, in Alsace, France), Switzerland, Italy, England, Germany, Canada and America.

High-dynamic-range imaging

An excellent example is the photograph Schweitzer at the Lamp by W. Eugene Smith, from his 1954 photo essay A Man of Mercy on Dr. Albert Schweitzer and his humanitarian work in French Equatorial Africa.

Joachim Neugroschel

Neugroschel translated more than 200 books of numerous authors, including Sholem Aleichem, Bergelson, Chekhov, Dumas, Hesse, Kafka, Mann, Moliere, Maupassant, Proust, Schweitzer, Singer and modern writers such as Ernst Jünger, Elfriede Jelinek and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

Montana Freemen

He received a 22 year sentence for 25 convictions in a South Carolina federal prison, but was moved to the Administrative Maximum (ADX) facility at the Florence Federal Correctional Complex at Florence, Colorado, in 2006 after Ervin Elbert Hurlbert and Donald Little, who identified themselves as "Montana Marshals", attempted to free Schweitzer from the prison.

Montana gubernatorial election, 2004

Brian Schweitzer, a farmer from Whitefish, began campaigning for the Democratic nomination over a year before the primary.

Nia Künzer

She grew up in the Albert-Schweitzer-Kinderdorf (children's village) in Wetzlar-Garbenheim, alongside her brother and seven foster-children.

Pierre-Paul Schweitzer

Schweitzer was educated at the University of Strasbourg, the University of Paris, and the Paris School of Political Science and received degrees in Law, Economics and Political Science.

Reginald Tate

Tate was the second choice for the part of Professor Bernard Quatermass; Cartier had previously offered it to his co-star It Is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer, André Morell, who declined the role.

Schott Music

Peter Eötvös recently joined Schott, as well as several young composers during the last years: Chaya Czernowin, Joe Duddell, Moritz Eggert, Kenneth Hesketh, Christian Jost, Tatjana Komarova, Nicholas Lens, Olli Mustonen, Benjamin Schweitzer, Jörg Widmann and Lei Liang.

The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present


Like Schweitzer, Drews, again, ignores the priority of Baron d'Holbach in publishing the first critical "Life of Jesus", with Ecce Homo!

Yoram Schweitzer

Yoram Schweitzer is a Senior Research Fellow at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).


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