Life
David Schwarz was the son of Jewish parents. He was a wood merchant raised in Županja, but he spent most of his life in Zagreb, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Although Schwarz had no special technical training, he busied himself with technology and developed improvements for woodcutting machinery.
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