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SCHWEITZER ALBERT: (1875-1965) Alsatian Theologian, Musician, Philosopher & Physician, Nobel Peace P... - SCHWEITZER ALBERT: (1875-1965) Alsatian Theologian, Musician, Philosopher & Physician, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1952. An unusual manuscript D.S., Albert Schweitzer, one page, oblong 8vo, Lambarene, 2nd August 1959, in French. Schweitzer has headed the document Certificate of Baptism and writes, in part, 'Mlle. Margrietha Dingena van der Kreek, born on the twenty-ninth September 1926 at Bussum, Holland, residing since March 1955 at Lambarene (Gabon), who works at my hospital in Lambarene, was baptised by me, Albert Schweitzer, consecrated pastor of the Evangelical Church of Alsace, on the 2nd August 1959 at Lambarene', also stating that the baptism has been recorded in the book of baptisms of the Society of Evangelical Missions in Paris. EX £150-200 Dr. Margrietha van der Kreek served as Schweitzer's Chief of Medical Services at his renowned hospital in Lambarene, in the Gabon province of French Equatorial Africa, from March 1955 until August 1960.