Guide to the Albert Schweitzer Collection

Descriptive Summary
Creator: Arthur E. Schultz
Title: Albert Schweitzer Collection
Dates: ca. 1935-1993
Quantity: 4 cubic feet + 516 books
Abstract: Material containing information about Albert Schweitzer and books written by, about, or referencing Albert Schweitzer.
Accession: 08-06-494

Biographical Note:
Albert Schweitzer was a medical doctor, theologian, philosopher, musician, and humanitarian, probably most widely known for his works on Jesus Christ and Johann Sebastian Bach, and for the founding of a hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa (Gabon), where he served the people of Africa and worked among the lepers. He was born in Kaysersberg in Alsace-Lorraine in 1875 and died in 1965 in Gabon.

Scope and Content:
Consists of 516 books written by or about or including mention of Albert Schweitzer, as well as binders of photocopied articles about Schweitzer; bibliographic information; calendars; cassette tapes; DVDs; ephemera; magazines; newsclippings; periodicals; postcards; and video tapes. Also includes three letters signed by Albert Schweitzer.

Books in the Schweitzer Collection can be found by searching the University of South Alabama Library's catalog: http://library.southalabama.edu/

Access Restrictions:
This material is open for research.

Preferred Citation:
[Title of Item or Bibliographic Citation], Albert Schweitzer Collection, The Doy Leale MCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

Box 1

1. Master Index to Binders
2. Binders 1 – 15

Box 2

1. Binders 16 – 31

Box 3

1. Binders 17 – 39
2. Albert Schweitzer International Convocation, May 1966, General Sessions 1 – 4
3. Albert Schweitzer International Convocation, May 1966, General Sessions 5 – 12
4. Albert Schweitzer Lectures in Humanities, December 1965
5. "Albert Schweitzer Speaks Out," The World Year Book 1964 / "Albert Schweitzer: His Philosophy & Influence on the Century," Lecture by Marian Mill Preminger, 1956
6. "The Correspondence between Bertrand Russell and Albert Schweitzer," by Herbert Spiegelberg
7. Guide to Periodical Literature [about Schweitzer], 1900-1992
8. My Monkey Friends, by Mrs. Charles E. B. Russell (1948)

Life

1. October 31, 1955
2. February 19, 1965
3. September 17, 1965
4. December 1978

Etude

5. January 1937
6. November 1942
7. January 1944
8. December 1950
9. April 1953
10. May 1953
11. January 1954

National Enquirer

12. January 22, 1980

Newsweek

13. April 16, 1979
14. July 14, 1980
15. November 9, 1992

Saturday Review

16. October 1, 1977

Atlantic

17. August 1966

Reader’s Digest

18. February 1977

Saturday Evening Post

1. June 1977

Christian Century

2. October 29, 1958

Cancer News Journal

3. Volume 10, number 4

Quest/77

4. March/April

Popular Photography

5. February 1977
6. November 1989

Calendars

7. 1980
8. 1987
9. 1993

DVDs

1. Bach Werke für Orgel / Œuvres pour orgue / Organ Works, by Albert Schweitzer
2. Albert Schweitzer plays Bach, volume 1
3. Albert Schweitzer plays Bach, volume 2

Cassette Tapes

4. Goethe: His Personality and Work, by Albert Schweitzer
5. International Albert Schweitzer Colloquium at the United Nations, August 23, 1990 [side 1 and 2]
6. International Albert Schweitzer Colloquium at the United Nations, August 23, 1990 [side 3 and 4]
7. International Albert Schweitzer Colloquium at the United Nations, August 23, 1990 [side 5 and 6]

Video Tapes

8. "Reverence for Life in Action," Narrated by Isaac Stern, Presented by the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities
9. "The Spirit of Albert Schweitzer," Produced by John H. Scudder
10. "Albert Schweitzer: Yesterday’s Man for Today’s World," 1990 by Hartman-Perkins & Associates
11. "Albert Schweitzer," by Erica Anderson and Jerome Hill
12. BellSouth Commercial featuring Schweitzer

Box 7

1. Baptismal Statement [of Albert Schweitzer]
2. Booklet: "Reverence for Life: An Ethic for High School Biology Curricula"
3. Comments about His Religious Experience [by Albert Schweitzer]
4. Ephemera [Schweitzer photo and quote, broadside]

Book Excerpts

5. Biographical Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1965?)
6. The Encyclopedia of World Biography, volume 9 (1973)
7. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Religion (1979)
8. Great Lives from History: Twentieth Century Series, volume 5 (1990)
9. Heroes of Our Time
10. Makers of the Modern World (1955)
11. Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form (1952?)
12. Religion from Tolstoy to Camus
13. Twentieth Century Authors (1955)
14. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1992, second edition (1991)

End Book Excerpts

15. Miscellaneous Articles
16. Miscellaneous Newsclippings
17. Original Letters (3)
18. Postcards
19. Review of Erica Anderson film about Schweitzer by Emory Bogardus (1957)