Carl Schmidt (26 August 1868, in Hagenow, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 17 April 1938, in Cairo) was a German Coptologist.
He made editions of various Coptic texts, and was active in Egypt in purchasing papyri for German universities.
In 1899 he attained the habilitation in history of Christianity with "Plotins Stellung zum Gnostizismus und kirchlichen Christentum".
For the publishing of the meanwhile mutilated and partly destroyed Codex Brucianus, Schmidt was able to use the copies and notes of Karl Gottfried Woide and Moritz Gotthilf Schwartze, which were made, when the manuscript still was in better condition.
Together with Harnack he was editor of Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur.