Furrer, Konrad

D.D. (Bern, 1879), Swi Protestant theologian; b. at Fluntern, near Zurich, Nov. 5, 1838; studied at Zurich, 1857- 62; was ordained, 1862; from 1864 to 1876, pastor in various places of the canton of Zurich since 1876, pastor of St. Peter's, Zurich. In 1863 he made an exploring tour through Palestine; in 1869 he became privat-docent for biblical archaeology in the University of Zurich, but did not lecture from 1871 until 1885, when on the death of Biedermann he resumed his position, and now lectures upon the history of religion. He is also a Kirchenrath of the canton (since 1885), and teacher of religion in the Zurich female seminary. In theology he is a liberal, right wing. He is the author of Rudolph Collin, cler Freund Zwinglis, Halle, 1862; Wanderungen durch Pal a est in a, Zurich, 1865 (French trans., Geneva, 1886); Die Bedeutung der biblischen Geographie fiir die hiblische Exegese, Zurich, 1870; of the majority of the geographical, zoological, and botanical articles in Schenkel's Bibel-lexicon, Leipzig, 1869-75; of many e ays, e.g, Die religionsgeschichtliche Bedeutung Jerusalems (in Zeitstimmen, 1866); Israel als Volk des Morgen landes (in the same, 1867); Die Religion im Juqendalter der Mensch he it (in Reform, 1 878) Die all gem eine Religionsgeschichte und die religiose Bilduny (in Meili's Theolog. Zeitschrift, 1884) has in preparation an entire reconstruction of Raumer's Pal a est in a. G. g.