Lucian Scherman

Lucian Scherman (October 10, 1864, in Posen – May 29, 1946, in Hanson, Massachusetts) was a German Indologist, curator of the Ethnology Museum in Munich, and also a professor at the University there.

His dissertation was entitled Eine eingehende Erörterung der philosophischen Hymnen aus der Rig- und Atharva-Veda-Sanhitâ sowohl an sich als auch im Verhältnis zur Philosophie der älteren Upanishad's.

The dissertation was, coincidentally, the answer to a prize question that his instructor, Ernst Kuhn, had put to the faculty.

Scherman's eminence both in Germany and abroad was so considerable that a special Department of Asian Ethnology with an emphasis on Indian Culture was created specifically for him.

Lucian Scherman has written many articles and books, and it would be difficult to draw up an exhaustive list.