Baron Albert de Pury (born 22 December 1940) is a Swiss biblical scholar, historian, and exegesis.
De Pury is a member of a Huguenot family from Neuchâtel that was ennobled by Frederick II of Prussia in 1785.
From 1966 to 1972, de Pury served on the faculty at the University of Neuchâtel's theology department as a professor of Biblical Hebrew.
[6] At the University of Geneva, de Pury initiated the project The Pentateuque, which focused on the literary origins of the Hebrew Bible.
He is a member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Racines et Sources Foundation.