Ernest DeWitt Burton

Ernest DeWitt Burton (February 4, 1856 – May 26, 1925) was an American biblical scholar and president of the University of Chicago.

Ernest DeWitt Burton

Biography

Burton was born in Granville, Ohio and graduated from Denison University in 1876. After graduating from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1882, he studied in Germany at Leipzig and Berlin, then taught at seminaries in Rochester and Newton (1882–1892). Burton was then appointed chief of the department of New Testament literature and interpretation at the University of Chicago and in 1897 was named editor of the American Journal of Theology. Burton was president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research in 1906-1907. He served as the third president of the University of Chicago from 1923 until his death from cancer in 1925.

Publications

Burton notably wrote with Shailer Mathews,[1] 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 he wrote Biblical Ideas of Atonement (1909).

Works

References

  1. "Dean Shailer Matthews". The Independent. August 31, 1914. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
  2. "Some Principles of Literary Criticism and their Application to the Synoptic Problem - online version". Retrieved April 15, 2019.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Harry Pratt Judson
President of the University of Chicago
19231925
Succeeded by
Max Mason


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