Gustav von Schönberg (21 July 1839, in Stettin – 3 January 1908) was a German economist.
After successfully completing these studies in 1860, he transferred to the civil service and was promoted to Gerichtsassessor within five years.
Subsequently, Schönberg worked at the Seminar of the Prussian Statistical Bureaux.
In autumn 1868, Schönberg was appointed Professor ordinarius of Economics at the University of Basel.
Starting in 1887, Schönberg edited the journal Tübinger Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft (Tübingen Magazine for the Entire Political Sciences) together with Albert Schäffle and Karl Viktor Fricker.