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Denys (Dionys) van der Schuere (Schure, Scheure), (also Verschuren), a Dutch Mennonite preacher and elder, died 1673 at Haarlem, who served the Waterlander congregation of [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]] 1639-1671 and Haarlem 1671-1673. During his Amsterdam period he conducted at the same time a printing office and bookshop. Among his editions are Bibles and Schabaelje's <em>Vereenigingh van de Principale Artijckelen das Geloofs</em>. His descendants were also printers and booksellers at Amsterdam. Van der Schuere descended from a Mennonite family that had emigrated from Flanders.

In 1640, after [[Hendriksz, Joost (1592-1644)|Joost Hendriksz]] had attacked the [[Waterlanders|Waterlanders]] and accused them of holding unbiblical views concerning the satisfactory death of Christ, Denys van der Schuere and [[Dalen, Jacob Cornelisz van (1608-1664)|Jacob Cornelisz van Dale]], his co-preacher in the Amsterdam Waterlander congregation, published <em>Korte Vertooninghe van de onware beschuldigingen</em> . . . (Amsterdam, 1640). After the death of the Waterlander leader [[Ries, Hans de (1553–1638)|Hans de Ries]] in 1638 van der Schuere published <em>Lijck-Predicatie over 't Afsterven van Hans de Ries</em> (Amsterdam, 1638).
= Bibliography =
<em class="gameo_bibliography">Doopsgezinde Bijdragen</em> (1863): 124, 138; (1898): 56.

Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam</em>, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. II, No. 376.

Schijn, Hermann. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Aanhangzel Dienende tot den Vervolg of Derde Deel van de Geschiedenis der Mennoniten . . . in het welke noch Negentien Leeraars der Mennoniten . . .</em> . Amsterdam: Kornelis de Wit, 1745: 296.
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