Gustav Schwartz

{{short description|Austrian paleontologist and malacologist}}

Gustav Schwartz (his last name also spelled Schwarz), full name Gustav Franziskus Maria Schwarz von Mohrenstern (May 5, 1809 – June 15, 1890) was an Austrian paleontologist and malacologist. He was born in Himberg, the son of Johann Jakov Schwartz von Mohrenstern. He died by suicide in Vienna.

He studied the natural sciences from 1823 to 1828 at polytechnic school, an Austrian career preparatory high school system in the Austrian education system. In later life, he specialized in the study of the Rissoidae, a large and challenging family of very small marine gastropod mollusks. His unfinished thesis was on the rissoid genus Alvania.{{cite web|url=http://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_S/Schwarz-Mohrenstern_Gustav-Franziskus-Maria_1809_1890.xml |title=Gustav Schwarz|accessdate=April 30, 2015}}

In 1867, Schwartz was a correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofaca19acad/proceedingsofaca19acad_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia"|date=1867 |publisher=Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |accessdate=May 1, 2016}}

Taxa described by Schwartz

Taxa described by Schwartz include:

Taxa named in honor of Schwartz

Taxa named in honor of Schwartz include:

  • Schwartziella G. Nevill, 1881Nevill G. (1881). "New or little-known mollusca of the Indo-Malayan fauna". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 50(2): 125-167. [https://archive.org/stream/journalofasi501881unse#page/162/mode/2up page 162].
  • Alvania schwartziana Brusina, 1866{{in lang|it}} Brusina S. (1866). "Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi dalmati". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-botanisch Gesellschaft in Wien 16: 1-134. [https://archive.org/stream/contribuzionepel00brus#page/24/mode/2up page 25]-26.

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