Ernst Schwarz (zoologist)

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Ernst Schwarz (born December 1, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 23, 1962 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was a German-American zoologist .

Life and activity

After attending school, Schwarz studied medicine in Berlin, London and Munich. In Munich he received his doctorate in 1912. nat.

From 1913 to 1917 he worked at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main, where he was in charge of the mammal collection. He then worked at the Paul Ehrlich Institute in the same city. From 1925 to 1930 he worked at the Zoological Museum in Berlin. During this time he participated in the founding of the German Society for Mammal Studies in 1926 .

In 1929 Schwarz became professor of zoology at the University of Greifswald , where he also headed the zoological museum from 1930. He worked at the Natural History Museum in London from 1933 to 1937 , then moved to the United States, where he worked at the US National Museum in Washington. Most recently he was involved in the Venezuela Plague Mission of the Panamerican Sanitary Bureau.

The big apes were his specialty. He is considered the first to describe the bonobos , a Central African endemic species of ape .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Franz BM de Waal: The monkey in us. Why we are the way we are , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-446-20780-5 , p. 18.

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personal data
SURNAME Black, serious
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1962
Place of death Bethesda , Maryland