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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon SCHURMANN, Carl Born: fl. 1880 Architect Worked in the Orange Free State from about 1880 in association with Gustav HALLE, who was then Inspector of Public Works, Bloemfontein. A civil engineer who had trained in Berlin, Schurman advertised himself in Bloemfontein in 1881 as a civil engineer, architect, water-colourist, railway engineer and stated also that he could design churches and Houses etc 'op te maken'. He was still in Bloemfontein in 1884 working as a contractor for telegraph lines after which nothing more was heard of him. (Schoeman 1982) All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.