Schauman was born in
Helsinki to publicist
August Schauman. He was the father of librarian . Schauman attended the
University of Helsinki, where he was vice chairman of the
Prometheus Society for the promotion of
freedom of religion. He graduated in 1887 and earned his doctorate in 1911, and was adjunct assistant professor at the university library (today the
National Library of Finland) 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
Diet of Finland in 1897, 1899, 1900, from 1904 to 1905 and from 1905 to 1906 and of the
Parliament of Finland 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
Charles Gide'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
Pehr Kalm's . Schauman's works include
Biographical Studies on Anders Chydenius (, 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
festschrift in honor of Schauman was published on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Schauman died in Helsinki in 1930. == Publications ==