George W. Schwab

George W. Schwab (1876–1955) was a Presbyterian minister and a missionary. He and his wife Jewel Huester Schwab were appointed to the West Africa Mission in 1905. He also did scientific work in the fields of anthropology and zoology.

Early life and education George W. Schwab was born in 1876 He graduated from Amherst College for both a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Science. His career as a missionary ended in 1941. Shortly after officially becoming affiliated with the Peabody Museum in 1918, he collaborated with Earnest Hooton to create a linguistic and tribal map of Africa on behalf of the U.S. Peace Commission. He also collected the holotype of a species of rove beetle, Dorylophila schwabi, which was named after him by William Morton Wheeler. Glover Morrill Allen attempted to name a species of dormouse after Schwab, Graphiurus schwabi, but it was determined to be a junior synonym to an existing scientific name, Graphiurus surdus. Additionally, Schwab is presumed the collector of the holotype of a species of fungus of the genus Autophagomyces, A. kamerunensis.

Schwab published two works about his time in Cameroon: