Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes

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

Works

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. 140 - 162
• Die Bedeutung der Lyngby-Zivilisation für die Gliederung der Steinzeit Hamburgo 1923
• Führer durch Haithabu 1932
• Zur Geschichte der nordischen Zivilisation. Hamburgo: Evert, 1938
• Die Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins. 1. Vorgeschichte Schleswig - Holsteins 1939
• Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins. Die Urgeschichte. Vol. 1, Teil 1. Neumünster 1958
• The Cultivation of the Mesembryanthemaceae, 1953
• Flowering Stones and Mid-Day Flowers, 1957

Tributes

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