Albert Schweitzer made only a single trip to the United States. It was during the summer of 1949, when he came to speak in Aspen, Colorado, at a festival celebrating the bicentennial of Goethe’s birth, to earn funds for a leprosy clinic at Lambarene, and to meet with American drug manufacturers about modern leprosy treatments. The lecture he gave on Friday, July 8, was translated from the German by playwright & novelist Thorton Wilder. He & his wife Helene returned to Europe on the Nieuw Amsterdam, the same ship on which they had arrived.
Schweitzer in Aspen, photo W. Eugene Smith 1949
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