{{about|the surname and those bearing it}}{{wiktionarypar|schwarz|Schild}}Schwarzschild ({{IPA-de|ˈʃvaʁtsʃɪlt|}}) is a German surname[1] meaning "black sign" or "black shield".
Those bearing the name include:
Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), physicist and astronomer
Steven Schwarzschild (1924–1989), philosopher and rabbi
Henry Schwarzschild (1926–1996), civil rights activist
1. ^It is likely to be misspelled and/or mispronounced by native English speakers, particularly involving failure to grasp that* German sch (at the beginning of each of the two syllables) is pronounced as English sh,* German w is pronounced as English v, and* German z is pronounced as English ts.Some English speakers omit the s that begins the second syllable and pronounce child and childe (instead of approximating either English shield or German {{IPA-de|ʃɪlt|}}).