{{Short description|18th- and 19th-century German bookseller and publisher}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand German|topic=bio|date=March 2024}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2021}} }}
thumb|August Schumann. [[File:Schumannhaus ALT.JPG|thumb|left|House of Schumann in Zwickau]] '''Friedrich August Gottlob Schumann ''' (March 2, 1773 – August 10, 1826) was a German bookseller and publisher. His best-known work is the 18-volume Lexicon of Saxony, which was completed after his death by {{ill|Albert Schiffner|de}}. 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wolf's Thematic Index of the Works of the Great Composers - Biographies - Schumann |url=https://documentamusica.de/html/en-bio-schumann.html |website=documentamusica.de |access-date=14 January 2025}}</ref>{{better|date=January 2025}}
==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 pastor in Endschutz, and had little money around; due to this August Schumann was unable to achieve higher education.<ref name=PFOstwald1985>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVTo_GHbihoC&dq=august+schumann&pg=PA12 |date=1985 |author=Peter F. Ostwald |publisher=Northeastern University Press |isbn=9781555530143 |title=Schumann}}</ref>
==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),<ref>{{cite book |author=Udo Rauchfleisch |title=Robert Schumann. Eine psychoanalytische Annäherung |trans-title=Robert Schumann: A Psychoanalytic Approach |publisher=Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht |location=Göttingen |date=2004 |ISBN=978-3-525-01627-5 |page=19–20}}</ref> Eduard (1799–1839), Carl (1801–1849), Julius (1804–1833) and the composer Robert Schumann (1810–1856).<ref>{{cite book |author=Ernst Burger |title=Robert Schumann. Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern und Dokumenten. Unter Mitarbeit von Gerd Nauhaus und mit Unterstützung des Robert-Schumann-Hauses Zwickau, Mainz u. a. |trans-title=Robert Schumann. A life chronicle in pictures and documents. With the collaboration of Gerd Nauhaus and with the support of the Robert Schumann House Zwickau, Mainz and others. |date=1999 |page=13 |ISBN=9783795703431}}</ref>
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