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This article is about the surname and those bearing it. For other uses, see Schwarzschild (disambiguation).

Schwarzschild ([ˈʃvaʁtsʃɪlt]) is a German surname meaning "black sign" or "black shield". Notable people with the surname include:

Henry Schwarzschild (1925–1996), American lawyer
Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), German physicist
Leopold Schwarzschild (1891–1950), German author
Luise Hercus (née Schwarzschild; 1926–2018), Australian linguist
Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild (1931–2020), German Holocaust survivor
Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997), German-American astronomer
Shimon Schwarzschild (1925–2021), German-born American environmental activist
Steven Schwarzschild (1924–1989), American rabbi, philosopher, theologian and editor

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It is likely to be misspelled and/or mispronounced by native English speakers, particularly involving failure to grasp that
- German sch (at the beginning of each of the two syllables) is pronounced as English sh,
- German w is pronounced as English v, and
- German z is pronounced as English ts.
Some English speakers omit the s that begins the second syllable and pronounce child and childe (instead of approximating either English shield or German [ʃɪlt]).

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