David schwarz biography

David Schwarz (December 20, 1852,^{Note a} Keszthely, Kingdom of Hungary^{Note b} – January 13, 1897, Vienna) was a Hungarian aviation pioneer of Jewish descent.

Schwarz created the first flyable rigid airship.

David schwarz biography

It was also the first airship with an external hull made entirely of metal. He died before he could see it finally fly. Sources claimed that Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin purchased the patent from his widow, but Hugo Eckener disputed this.

Life

David Schwarz was the son of Jewish parents.

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He was a wood merchant born in Županja, but he spent most of his life in Zagreb, then part of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Although Schwarz had no special technical training, he busied himself with technology and developed improvements for woodcutting machinery.

Airship thoughts

Schwarz first interested himself with airships in the 1880s. This occurred as he stayed in a Croatian log cabin at the start of winter to su