Peter Heinrich Schwartze (born 23 May 1931 in Bad Salzuflen) is a German neurophysiologist, systems scientist and cyberneticist well known in the ex-German Democratic Republic. Schwartze graduated the medical university in Leipzig, Germany, in 1957 and specialized in neurophysiology. He studied and worked at the universities of Rostock, Greifswald and Leipzig. He became Doctor Habilitatus of the University Leipzig, Germany in 1968 and Professor of Pathophysiology in 1978 and served as the director of the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology between 1980 and 1992 as successor of Hans Drischel.
Prof. Schwartze also served as member of the East German Parliament between 1980 and 1990, in the Cultural Association fraction.
Scientific contributions Schwartze studied the vestibular apparatus, the air-righting reflexLaouris, Y., Kalli-Laouri and Schwartze, P. (1990). The postnatal development of the air-righting reaction in albino rats. Quantitative analysis of normal development and the effect of preventing neck-torso and torso-pelvis rotations. Behavioural Brain Research 37:37-44 and related spinal reflexes for over 30 years. He published hundreds of scientific reports (mostly in German journals) and a number of scientific and text books on issues of brain development,Schwartze, P. (1970). Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Elektroontogenese des Gehirns : Unter bes. Berücks. d. Beziehgn zwischen elektrographischer Weckreaktion u. d. Entwicklg des Riechsinnes, Leipzig, Bereich Med., Hab.Schr. v. 26. April 1970; Signatur: U 70.3732 Bereitstellung in FrankfurtGramsbergen, A, Schwartze, P. and Prechtl, H.F.R. (1970). The postnatal development of behavioral states in the rat. Developmental Psychobiology, 3:267-280. vestibulo-ocular reflexes and cybernetics.Schwartze Peter (1980) Stand und Perspektive der Biokybernetik, Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift / Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; Jg. 29. 1980, H. 2Schwartze Hannelore and Schwartze Peter, Physiologie des Foetal-, Neugeborenen- und Kindesalters : e. Einf. von u. Stuttgart, New York : Fischer, 1977. XVIII, 629 S. : 118 Ill. u. graph. Darst., 25 cm Gr.-8°, Leinen ) He served as vice president of the Society for Experimental Research between 1978 and 81 and also served as member of the editorial board of many journals such as Pediatrics and Related Topics Journal and International Tinnitus Journal.
References
External links Peter Schwartze, Local Newspaper, 1986. Peter Schwartze, Interview by Spiegel magazine. Archiv Leipzig University.