Georg Carl August Schauman (14 September 1870 – 6 October 1930) was a

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historian, librarian and politician. 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 . 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 Swedish People's Party of Finland 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 Anton Menger'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

Anders Chydenius Anders Chydenius (; 26 February 1729 – 1 February 1803) was a Swedish-Finnish Lutheran priest and a member of the Swedish Riksdag, and is known as the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. Born in Sotkamo, Finland (then part of Swed ...

'' (, 1908; published by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland), ''Studies in the National Economic Literature of the Age of Liberty. 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.

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