Christoph Schumann (25 April 1969 – 1 September 2013) was a German political scientist.
After graduating with an Abitur from Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium Haar in 1988 and serving in alternative civilian service in Munich, Schumann studied history, political science and Islamic studies from 1993 to 1996 at the University of Würzburg.
Politische Sozialisation und Elitenbildung, 1930–1958“ ("Radical Nationalism in Syria and Lebanon.
From 2007 to 2009 he was assistant professor at the Institute for Islamic Studies and Modern Oriental Philology at the University of Bern.
In remembrance of Christoph Schumann, the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg awards a remembrance award in honour of Schumann to students with excellent bachelor's or master's theses about the contemporary Middle East.