Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt (1 January 1850 – 25 March 1938) was a German architect and art historian.

[1] After studying in Stuttgart and Vienna he worked as an architect, then obtained a position at the Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts.

This led to a doctorate and a professorship at the Dresden University of Technology, where he worked until his emeritat in 1920.

From 1894 he continued the Saxon inventory work of the art historian Franz Richard Steche.

Gurlitt wrote 97 books and more than 400 scholarly articles, not only on architecture and art, but also on political problems.