Friedrich August Gottlob Schumann (March 2, 1773 – August 10, 1826) was a German bookseller and publisher. His best-known work is the 18-volume

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, which was completed after his death by . He wrote ''Junker Kurt von Krötenstein's verliebte Heldenfahrt'' (''Lord Kurt von Krötenstein's Hero's Journey of Love'') under the pen name of Legaillard.

Childhood

Schumann was born on 2 March 1773, as the oldest of 6 siblings, to the couple Johann Friedrich Schumann and Christiane Magdalena Bohme. The father worked as a

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in Endschutz, and had little money around; due to this August Schumann was unable to achieve higher education.

Marriage and family

August married Johanna Christiana Schnabel (1767–1836) and was the father of five children: Emilie (born in 1796, who committed suicide in 1826), Eduard (1799–1839), Carl (1801–1849), Julius (1804–1833) and the composer

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

(1810–1856).

References

1773 births 1826 deaths German lexicographers German male non-fiction writers Robert Schumann {{Germany-linguist-stub