Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes

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German botanist

A.K.A.

Schwantes

From

Germany

was

Anthropologist Archaeologist Historian Scientist Botanist

Work field

Science Social science

Gender

Male

Star sign

VirgoPeople who share this birthday

Birth

18 September 1881 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Bleckede, Germany

Death

17 November 1960 (aged 79 years) People who died on this day

Place of death

Hamburg, Germany

Age

79 years

Politics:

Nazi Party

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Biography

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.