Georg Carl August Schauman (14 September 1870 – 6 October 1930) was a Finnish historian, librarian, politician and member of the

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noble family. He was librarian at the University of Helsinki library, today the

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, as well as a member of the

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and later

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Biography

Schauman was born in

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to publicist

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. He was the father of librarian . Schauman attended the

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, where he was vice chairman of the

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for the promotion of

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. He graduated in 1887 and earned his doctorate in 1911, and was adjunct assistant professor at the university library (today the

) from 1889. He became assistant professor in 1893 and was also librarian of the scientific society's library in Helsinki from 1905 to 1914, when he was appointed university librarian. He was a member of the

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in 1897, 1899, 1900, from 1904 to 1905 and from 1905 to 1906 and of the

from 1919 to 1930. He belonged to the

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until 1919 and to the Swedish Left after that. He was a presidential elector in the 1925 Finnish presidential election. Together with Axel von Christierson, Schauman translated and edited

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's ''The Principles of Economics'' (1st edition 1899, 4th edition 1914) and published

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's (1909) with a detailed biographical introduction. He also published and provided an introduction to the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland's edition of

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's . Schauman's works include ''Biographical Studies on

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'' (, 1908; published by the

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), ''Studies in the National Economic Literature of the

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. Ideas and trends 1718–1760'' (, academic thesis, 1910) and ''On the Management of Public Research Libraries'' (, 1913). He compiled a number of essays in newspapers and magazines in (1912). A

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in honor of Schauman was published on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Schauman died in Helsinki in 1930.

Publications

* ''I frågan om Universitetsbiblioteket'' (1892) * ''En boks historia'' (1904) * ''Accroissement de la Bibliothéque de la Société des Sciences de Finlande, 1904-1914'' (1906-14) * ''Biografiska undersökningar om Anders Chydenius jämte otryckta skrifter af Chydenius'' (1908) * ''Studier i frihetstidens nationalekonomiska litteratur'' (1910) * ''Kulturhistoriska och andra uppsatser'' (1912) * ''Ströftåg i utländska bibliotek'' (1912) * ''Tables générales des publications de la Société des Sciences de Finlande 1838-1910'' (1912) * ''Om förvaltningen af offentliga forskarbibliotek'' (1913) * ''Från Nikolai I:s och furst Menschikoffs tid'' (1916) * ''Berättelse över universitetsbibliotekets förvaltning under läseåren 1914-1923'' (1917-23) * ''Yliopiston kirjaston hallinto ja toiminta lukuvuosina 1917-1923. Kertomus jonka Yliopiston Rehtorille on antanut ylikirjastonhoitaja'' (1920-24) * ''Kampen om statsskicket i Finland 1918'' (1924) * ''Universitetsbibliotekets förvaltning och verksamhet under läseåren 1923-1926'' (1926) * ''Förteckning öfver svenska ortnamn i Finland'' (1897)

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