Francis Crawford Burkitt

Francis Burkitt
Born
Francis Crawford Burkitt

(1864-09-03)3 September 1864
Died11 May 1935(1935-05-11) (aged 70)
NationalityEnglish
Academic background
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Influences
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-discipline
School or traditionAnglicanism
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge

Francis Crawford Burkitt FBA (3 September 1864 – 11 May 1935) was an English theologian. As Norris Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1905 until shortly before his death, Burkitt was a sturdy critic of the notion of a distinct "Caesarean Text" of the New Testament put forward by B. H. Streeter and others.