Albert Schweitzer was a French physician, musician, and theologian born in 1875 in Kaysersberg to a pastor father who taught him to play the piano at a very early age.
When he was 6 months old, his father moved to Gunsbach, the village where he grew up and spent his entire youth; He began a university career in music and pastoral work before earning a doctorate in philosophy and then in theology.
Driven by a deep sense of humanism, he decided to become a doctor.
A proponent of dogmatic liberalism, he was concerned about poverty in Africa and decided to found the Lambaréné Hospital in Gabon. His departure in 1913 allowed him to realize his dream until the war broke out. Sent back to France to internment camps, he did not return to Africa until 1924. It was then that he built a larger hospital there, finally able to devote himself to the humanitarian medicine that was so dear to his heart.
He raised funds to support his hospital by performing piano concerts. Considered the first “doctor without borders,” he was awarded, among other honors, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. He died in Africa in 1965.

This geocaching trail offers a deeper insight into Albert Schweitzer’s life by following the Albert Schweitzer Trail. It is a marked path that explores Albert Schweitzer’s life and thoughts through sixteen stations scattered throughout the village of Gunsbach.