Jakob Heinrich Hermann Schwartz (3 November 1821 – 30 October 1890) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist.
[1] From 1848 to 1851 he served as a physician with the Schleswig-Holstein army, then afterwards returned to Kiel as an assistant to Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann.
In 1852 he obtained his habilitation for obstetrics, and in 1859 relocated to Marburg as a professor and director of the university Frauenklinik.
In 1862 he succeeded Eduard Caspar Jacob von Siebold as director of the clinic for obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Göttingen.
While working as a privatdozent at the University of Kiel he conducted important research on fetal respiration in utero, publishing the treatise "Die vorzeitigen Athembewegungen" (1858) as a result.