Lambaréné

British  

/ lɑ̃barene /

noun

1. a town in W Gabon on the Ogooué River: site of the hospital built by Albert Schweitzer, who died and was buried there (1965). Pop: 9000 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

For this study, the Swiss researchers pooled data with two other groups that conducted Phase 1 trials of the vaccine in Africa—in Lambaréné, Gabon, and Kilifi, Kenya.

From Scientific American

The Albert Schweitzer Hospital, which sits above the Ogooue River in the town of Lambarene, treats almost 30,000 patients each year.

From BBC

He comes to Lambarene several times a year.

From BBC

In 1879, on the Ogowe River, at my interior station, Kângwe, near the town of Lambarene, one hundred and thirty miles up the course of the river, I had a similar experience with that same society, known there in the Galwa tribe by the name of Yasi.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Walker made peace with his late captor, and established a trading-station at the Inenga village, Lambarene.

From Project Gutenberg