Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes

Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes (18 September 1881 – 1960) was a German archaeologist and botanist specialist of Aizoaceae (Mesembryanthemaceae).

Life and work

Schwantes was born in Bleckede and died in Hamburg.

The Duvensee paddle is the preserved part of a Mesolithic spade paddle, which was found during archaeological excavations of a Mesolithic dwelling area at Duvensee near Klinkrade (Herzogtum Lauenburg) Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1926 by Schwantes.

Publications

  • Deutschlands Urgeschichte (1908)
  • "Die Gräber der ältesten Eisenzeit im östlichen Hannover", in: Prähistorische Zeitschrift, vol. 1 (1909), p. 140-162
  • Die Bedeutung der Lyngby-Zivilisation für die Gliederung der Steinzeit (Hamburg, 1923)
  • Führer durch Haithabu (1932)
  • Zur Geschichte der nordischen Zivilisation (Hamburg: Evert, 1938)
  • Die Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins, vol. 1, Vorgeschichte Schleswig-Holsteins (1939)
  • Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins. Die Urgeschichte, vol. 1, part 1 (Neumünster, 1958)
  • The Cultivation of the Mesembryanthemaceae (1953)
  • Flowering Stones and Mid-Day Flowers (1957)

Tributes

The genus name Schwantesia is in honour of Gustav Schwantes. Astridia is a genus of plant named after Schwantes' wife, Astrid. Lithops schwantesii is a species name given as another tribute.

References

  1. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  Schwantes.
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