Ernst von Dobschütz

Ernst von Dobschütz
Ernst von Dobschütz, December 1922
Born	Ernst Adolf Alfred Oskar Adalbert von Dobschütz 9 October 1870 Halle, Germany
Died	20 May 1934(1934-05-20) (aged 63) Halle, Germany
Occupation	author, professor, theologian

Ernst Adolf Alfred Oskar Adalbert von Dobschütz (9 October 1870 – 20 May 1934) was a German theologian, textual critic, author of numerous books and professor at the University of Halle, the University of Breslau, and the University of Strasbourg. He also lectured in the United States and Sweden.

He was born and died in Halle.

Dobschütz was born into an old noble family of Silesia. He was a son of the Prussian colonel Adalbert von Dobschütz de Basse-Silesia and of his second wife Anna, Baroness von Seckendorff. His older half-brother (from his father's first marriage) was Prussian general of division Carl von Seckendorff. On December 29, 1919, in Halle (Saale), Dobschütz married Karin von Kronhelm (March 24, 1893 in Breslau, † May 7, 1986 in Halle), daughter of the Prussian general of division Curt von Kronhelm and Clara Schwarz. Their marriage remained childless.

In 1888 he began his theological studies at the University of Leipzig under professors Franz Delitzsch and Christoph Ernst Luthardt. In 1910, he became professor in the University of Breslau; in 1913, he accepted a call to the University of Halle, where he taught until his death in 1934, with the exception of the years 1913 and 1914, when he taught at Harvard University.