SCHUEFFELIN, or SCHAEUFFELEIN, HANS LEONARD, a celebrated old German painter and wood-engraver, was born at Nürnberg about 1490. Hans was placed early with Albrecht Dürer, with whom he became a great favourite. A good painting by Schueffelin is his "Taking Down from the Cross," in Nördlingen, executed in 1521. He died at Nördlingen in 1539 or 1540.