# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helene-bresslau
# Generated: 2026-09-06T20:48:17.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helene-bresslau"
name: "Helene Bresslau"
slug: "helene-bresslau"
description: "Helene Bresslau Schweitzer was a German medical missionary, nurse, social worker, linguist, public medicine enthusiast, editor, feminist, sociologist, and the wife/confidant of Albert Schweitzer, who co-founded the Albert Schweitzer Hospital with her. Albert, a medical missionary, did not mention her role in his efforts. According to writer Mary Kingsley, she is \"one form of human being whose praise has never adequately been sung, namely, the missionary's wife.\""
tagline: "19th and 20th-century German missionary, linguist, and social worker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gedenktafel_am_Albert-_und_Helene-Schweitzer-Bresslau-Baum_in_Basel.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-01-25"
deathDate: "1957-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.642228
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "هيلين بريسلاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%B4%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%B1"
    title: "هلن برسلوا شویتزر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Schweitzer"
    title: "Helene Schweitzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Bresslau_Schweitzer"
    title: "Helene Bresslau Schweitzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Schweitzer-Bresslau"
    title: "Hélène Schweitzer-Bresslau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1601945"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump