Our Far-Flung Correspondents
Toccata and Fugue.
By Joseph Wechsberg
The New Yorker, November 20, 1954 P. 87
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS piece about Albert Schweitzer doctor, organist, interpreter of Bach & Goethe, philosopher, theologian, etc. He was born Jan. 14, 1875, at Kayersberg, in Upper Alsace. In 1913, he started his hospital in Lambarene, in French Equatorial Africa, giving up his professorship at the University of Strasbourg, his literary work & his organ playing. He spends most of his time at the hospital, but occasionally returns to Europe to study, play the organ & raise funds or simply to rest. Tells about his routine at the hospital. The writer visited him recently at his house in Gunsbach, France. Describes the house and tells about Schweitzer's routine there. Schweitzer played the organ for the writer & a group of townspeople. The writer also talked with Mme. Emmy Mart in, Schweitzer's private secretary, and Miss Ali Silver, who works with Schweitzer in the hospital in Lambarene.
This article appears in the print edition of the November 20, 1954, issue.