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Jun 30, 1860 Died on 14 Dec 1941 (aged 81)
Swiss historian (1860-1941)
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About Gustav Schnürer
- Gustav Schnürer (June 30, 1860 – December 14, 1941) was a German-Swiss historian born in the Silesian village of Jätzdorf. He studied history, geography and philology at the universities of Berlin, Breslau and Münster, earning his doctorate in 1883 at Münster.
- Afterwards, he worked as an editorial assistant at Munich, later obtaining a professorship in medieval history at the University of Fribourg (1889). Schnürer is known for his studies of religious and religio-cultural history.
- His best known written work was Kirche und Kultur im Mittelalter, a book that was translated into English in 1956 by George J.
- Undreiner as Church and Culture in the Middle Ages: 350–814.
- He was co-founder of Deutschen Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst (German Society of Christian Art) (1893) and Zeitschrift für schweizerische Kirchengeschichte ("Magazine of Swiss Church History") (1907).
- He was also a contributor to the Catholic Encyclopedia.
