Ernest DeWitt Burton

Ernest DeWitt Burton

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. With Shailer Matthews he wrote Constructive Studies in the Life of Christ (1901) and Principles and Ideals of the Sunday School (1903), and with J. M. P. Smith and G. B. Smith Biblical Ideas of Atonement (1909). He also published:

• The Records and Letters of the Apostolic Age (1899)
• Short Introduction to the Gospels (1904)
• Studies in Mark (1904)
• Some Principles of Literary Criticism and their Application to the Synoptic Problem (1904), online version
• Harmony of the Synoptic Gospels in Greek, with Edgar J. Goodspeed, (1920)
• Commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Galatians (1920)
• Jesus of Nazareth, How He Thought, Lived, Worked, and Achieved (1920)
• Source Book for the Study of the Teaching of Jesus on Its Historical Relationships (1923)

• Ernest DeWitt Burton

Academic offices
Preceded by Harry Pratt Judson	President of the University of Chicago 1923—1925	Succeeded by Max Mason