South German (also Schüler): occupational name for a
scholar or a student training to be a priest, from an agent derivative
of Middle High German schuol(e) ‘school’.
Jewish
(Ashkenazic): occupational name for a Talmudic scholar or the sexton
of a synagogue, from an agent derivative of Yiddish shul
‘synagogue’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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