Carl Schwartz

August Ferdinand Carl Schwartz DD (1817–1870) was a Hebrew Christian clergyman and minister of the Free Church of Scotland serving in Amsterdam and London.

[1] He was born on 20 January 1817 in Meseritz in Prussia, now Międzyrzec Podlaski in Poland, the son of Isaac Levin Schwartz and Bertha Wollstein.

In 1844 he took on the role of Free Church of Scotland missionary to the Jews in Berlin, staying in this position until 1849.

There he succeeded the previous minister, Ridley Herschell, himself also a Polish-born Jew who had been converted to evangelical Christianity.

[5] In 1867 he became minister of Harrow Road Presbyterian Church, also continuing on his work of converting Jews, now in London.