Gustav Schwartz (his last name also spelled Schwarz), full name Gustav Franziskus Maria Schwarz von Mohrenstern (May 5, 1809 – June 15, 1890) was an

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paleontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

and

malacologist Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

. He was born in

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, the son of Johann Jakov Schwartz von Mohrenstern. He died by suicide in

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. He studied the

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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 Rissoidae is a large family of sea snails. Members of the Rissoidae are very small in size and possess an operculum. Distribution and habitat Rissoidae are found worldwide. They live on sandy or gravel bottoms among algae or marine plants. Th ...

, a large and challenging family of very small marine gastropod mollusks. His unfinished thesis was on the rissoid genus ''

Alvania ''Alvania'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae. They form a very diversified group within the Rissoidae family. Description ''Alvania'' as currently used may not be monophylet ...

''. In 1867, Schwartz was a correspondent of the

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Taxa described by Schwartz

Taxa named in honor of Schwartz

Taxa named in honor of Schwartz include: * ''

Schwartziella ''Schwartziella'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family (biology), family Zebinidae. The generic name ''Schwartziella'' is in honor of Gustav Franziskus Maria Schwartz von Mohre ...

'' G. Nevill, 1881Nevill G. (1881). "New or little-known mollusca of the Indo-Malayan fauna". ''

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'' 50(2): 125-167
page 162
* '' Alvania schwartziana'' Brusina, 1866 Brusina S. (1866). "Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi dalmati". ''Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-botanisch Gesellschaft in Wien'' 16: 1-134
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26.

Publications

* ''Über die Familie der Rissoiden und Insbesondere die Gattung Rissoina'', 1860.

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, Vienna * ''Über die Familie der Rissoiden. II. Rissoa.'', 1864.

, Vienna * ''Rissoidae, A Mollus Family'', Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Volume 19, 1861

, Vienna

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwartz, Gustav Zoologists from the Austrian Empire Zoologists from Austria-Hungary Paleontologists Malacologists 1809 births 1890 deaths People from Bruck an der Leitha District Suicides in Austria 1890s suicides