Peter Schwartze

Peter Schwartze
Born23 May 1931
NationalityGerman
Alma materLeipzig University
Scientific career
FieldsNeurophysiology
Vestibular system
Biocybernetics
InstitutionsCarl Ludwig Institute of Physiology
Notable studentsYiannis Laouris

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.