Summary

Ernest DeWitt Burton (1856–1925) was an American biblical scholar, born in Granville, Ohio. He graduated from Denison University in 1876 and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1882, and studied in Germany at Leipzig and Berlin, then taught at the seminaries in Rochester and Newton (1882–1892). He became head of the Department of New Testament Literature and Interpretation at the University of Chicago, and in 1897 became editor of the American Journal of Theology.