What kind of a doctor was Albert Schweitzer(Noble Peace Prize Winner in 1952)?

Question

I had heard that Albert Schweitzer was a physcian and "a surgeon"...but what kind of a surgeon was he??? (orthopedic, and so on..) Please tell me specifically about his medical occupation.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Albert Schweitzer, M.D., OM, (January 14, 1875 – September 4, 1965) was an Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaisersberg in Alsace-Lorraine, a bilingual Romano-Germanic region which Germany returned to France after World War I. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of historical Jesus current at his time and the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus who expected the imminent end of the world. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his philosophy of "reverence for life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa) .

Answer 2

"Physician and surgeon" is a generic term for a medical doctor. There weren't many surgical specialists in his day. He wasn't a specialist of any kind. If you were to classify him by today's standards, he would be a "general practitioner".