Ernst Schwarz (zoologist)

Ernst Schwarz (1889-1962) was a German zoologist.

Schwarz was born in Frankfurt and studied zoology in Munich. He worked at the Museum of Natural History in Frankfurt and the Zoological Museum in Berlin. In 1929 he became professor of Zoology in Greifswald. He worked at the Natural History Museum from 1933 to 1937, when he moved to the United States. He specialised in great ape species.

He is often credited with having discovered the Bonobo in 1928.