This person warned of “gradual moral ruin” from contact with “the child of nature” in On the Edge of the Primeval Forest. This person’s view that a “disordered society” demands “fundamental rights be abridged” informed Lorraine Hansberry’s portrayal of Torvald Neilsen in Les Blancs. This person, who was lionized by W. Eugene Smith’s Life photo-essay “A Man of Mercy,” was quoted by Chinua Achebe as calling the “African” “my junior brother.” This man lectured on the “problems of peace” and funded a leprosarium after he won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for a philosophy of “reverence for life.” In his autobiography Out of My Life and Thought, this “great white doctor” described treating dysentery at his Paris Missionary Society hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. For 10 points, what Alsatian theologian wrote The Quest of the Historical Jesus? ■END■
ANSWER: Albert Schweitzer [or Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer; accept Albert Schweitzer Hospital]
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