Eduard Schweizer (1913–2006) was a Swiss New Testament scholar who taught at the University of Zurich for an extended period. He won the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies in 1996.^[1][2][3]

Schweitzer studied Protestant theology at the University of Marburg, the University of Zurich and the University of Basel; in these institutions he was a student of Rudolf K. Bultmann, H. Emil Brunner and Karl Barth. He received his degree in theology in 1938 and became a Protestant Pastor in Nesslau. From 1941 he taught New Testament studies at the University of Zurich (1941-1946), the University of Mainz (1946-1949) and the University of Bonn (1949-1950). In 1950 he was appointed to the New Testament chair of the University of Zurich, where he was Rector from 1964 to 1966; he also chaired the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas in 1969.^[4][5]

He retired from teaching in 1979 and died in Zurich in 2006.

• Jesus (1971)
• The Good News According to Mark ISBN 0-8042-0250-8
• The Good News According to Matthew
• The Good News According to Luke ISBN 0-664-22361-3
• The Church as the Body of Christ, 1964
• Church Order in the New Testament, 1979, ISBN 0-334-00224-9
• The Lord's Supper in the New Testament
• The Spirit of God (Holy Spirit ISBN 0-334-02051-4)
• A Theological Introduction to the New Testament ISBN 0-281-04602-6