Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (October 23, 1871 – January 13, 1962) was an American theologian and scholar of Greek and the New Testament, and Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor of the University of Chicago until his retirement.

[6] At the age of ten, Goodspeed had been tutored in Latin by his father's students at Baptist Union Theological Seminary in Morgan Park, Illinois.

from Denison University in Granville, Ohio 1890, and he then studied Semitics at Yale for one year under William Rainey Harper.

[6] Upon his return to Chicago in 1900, he again joined the University faculty and rose steadily to become Professor of Biblical and Patristic Greek in 1915.

According to the University of Chicago Library during the Goodspeed lifetime "he wrote 64 books, collaborated on 16 others, and published 189 major articles and countless reviews".