Carl Salemann

Carl Hermann Salemann (, Karl Germanovitsh Zaleman; — ) was a Russian Iranist scholar. He was an academician of Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences and a director of Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences (1890—1916).

Biography Salemann was a Baltic German, born in Revel (now Tallinn), on .

He studied at of Saint Petersburg Imperial University, Arabic-Persian-Turkish and the Sanskrit-Persian sections, in 1867–1871.

In 1875, he became an assistant university librarian, and in 1879, he was promoted to full librarian.

From 1890, he was a director of Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences. In this position he collected manuscripts and books and published descriptions of newly acquired items, as well as prepared catalogues of the museum.

In 1890, he became a librarian of second section of the library of the Academy of Sciences.

In 1902, Salemann became an honorary professor of University of Giessen. In 1903, he became a member of the Russian committee for the Study of Central and Eastern Asia. In 1904, he became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1908, he became an honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society.