Muhammad Schmidt was born in 1950. He graduated in Linguistics, Chinese and African Studies, Language Pedagogy and Comparative Religion/Theology, made his Ph. D. in Chinese Studies (Sinology) and post-doc degree (Habilitation) from universities in Germany, the USA and China.
In Korea, South and East Africa and China he gave Linguistic and Chinese Language classes. At first he did this as a Lecturer, later as Associate and Full Professor. The author published numerous research works, textbooks and interactive digital language learning programmes for Swahili, Chinese and English.
Schmidt retired in June 2015 from the active professional life in the academic world. In January 2015 his well-known annotated German translation of the oldest Chinese classic on acupuncture was re-published by Viademica Publishers in Berlin (4. ed. , ISBN 978-3-939290-81-0).