Benedikt Sigmund Johannes Isserlin (1916 – 2005) was a scholar of Hebrew who was Head of the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Leeds.
He left Germany in the early 1930s and completed his schooling in Switzerland.
He graduated in 1939 and moved to Magdalen College, Oxford to read Oriental Languages, specialising in Hebrew and Arabic.
Isserlin taught German at King Alfred's School in Wantage for several years before returning to Oxford University in 1947 as Kennicott Hebrew Fellow for three years.
Isserlin was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Hebrew in the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Leeds in 1951.