Definition of Schweitzer

1. Noun. French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Schweitzer

Schwartz tractotomy
Schwartzmann reaction
Schwarz inequality
Schwarzenegger
Schwarzeneggeresque
Schwarzeneggerian
Schwarzeneggers
Schwarzian
Schwarzian derivative
Schwarzian derivatives
Schwarzians
Schwarzschild black hole
Schwarzschild black holes
Schwarzschild radius
Schwarzwald
Schweitzer (current term)
Schweitzerian
Schweiz
Schwellenangst
Schwendeman
Schwendiman
Schweninger's method
Schweninger-Buzzi anetoderma
Schwyz
Schützenfest
Sciadopityaceae
Sciadopitys
Sciadopitys verticillata
Sciaena
Sciaena antarctica

Literary usage of Schweitzer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. German Social Democracy: Six Lectures by Bertrand Russell (1896)
"Schweitzer, a man of great ability, and an intimate friend of Lassalle. Schweitzer rapidly improved the affairs of the Association. ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"A NEW MUFFLE FOR INCINERATION OF SUGAR.1 BY H. Schweitzer AND E. LUNGWITZ. THE incineration of sugar for the determination of ash is ..."

3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1921)
"B. WHAT STATE DIVISIONS OF CHILD HYGIENE ARE DOING TO PROMOTE CHILD HEALTH Ada E. Schweitzer, MD, Director, Division of Infant and Child Hygiene, ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1904-6. 2. JS Bach, le Musicien-Poete. By Albert Schweitzer. Leipzig: Breitkopf and Haertel, 1905. H. Richard Wagner, 1813-34. ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"BY RF SCHUCHARDT AND EO Schweitzer INTRODUCTION In large electric power systems the maintenance of a very high degree of reliability, that is, ..."

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