Career
He settled in Halle, where he became assistant professor of otology at its university. One of the founders of modern otology, Schwartze made a particular study of the anatomy of the ear and improved the methods of paracentesis on the tympanic membrane and of the opening of inflamed apophyses of the middle ear. He wrote Praktische Beiträge zur Ohrenheilkunde (1864), Pathologische Anatomie des Ohrs (1878.
English translation by J O Green, The Pathological Anatomy of the Ear, 1878), Lehrbuch der chirurgischen Krankheiten desOhrs (1885), and Grundriss der Otologie (1905).
This publication was the first journal in Germany dedicated to ear disorders. Schwartze"s operation—the opening of the mastoid cells with a hammer and chisel in disease of the middle ear.
Dorland"s Medical Dictionary (1938)
Schwartze"s sign: a reddish-blue discoloration behind the tympanic membrane, occasionally seen in otosclerosis.
