Ilan's Albert Schweitzer: Hsu Wen-cheng In his youth, the German philosopher, physician, and 1952 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) read an essay in a French magazine calling for the services of doctors in Africa, which inspired him to go there to establish clinics and practice medicine. In the history of modern medicine, his spirit of "reverence for life" is admired to this day.
在現代醫學史上，獲得 1952 年諾貝爾和平獎的德國哲學家醫師史懷哲（1875－1965），因為年輕時看到巴黎傳道雜誌一篇呼籲非洲剛果急需醫師的文章，毅然到蠻荒大陸設立醫院、行醫奉獻，他所標舉的「尊重生命」精神，至今仍為世人傳頌。