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SCHURER (1844–1910)  , German Protestant theologian, was born at Augsburg on the 2nd of May 1844 . After studying at Erlangen, Berlin and Heidelberg from 1862 to 1866, he became in 1873 professor extraordinarius at Leipzig and eventually (1895) professor ordinarius at Gottingen . In 1876 he founded and edited the Theologische Literaturzeitung, and from 1881 to 1910 he edited it with Adolf Harnack . His elaborate work on the history of the Jews in the time of Christ (Geschichte des jiidischen Volks im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, 2 vols., 1886–189o; nem ed. in 3 vols., 1901–1902; Eng. trans., 1890 ff.) made him in Great Britain and America one of the best known of modern German scholars . He died after a long illness on the 3oth of April 1910 . His other works include: Schleiermacher's Religionsbegriff (1868); Lehrbuch der neutestamentlichen Zeitgeschichte (1874; an earlier form of Gesch. des jiid . Volks), and Die Gemeindeverfassung der Juden in Rom (1879) . See A . Harnack in the Theologische Literaturzeitung for May 14, 1910 .