Eduard Krüger (9 December 1807 – 8 November 1885) was a German musicologist, composer and philologist.
Born in Lüneburg, Krüger received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1830 and then continued his studies in Berlin.
From 1838 he corresponded with Robert Schumann, who appreciated him as a skilful writer and won him as a collaborator for his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
The correspondence ended abruptly after Krüger criticised Schumann's opera Genoveva in 1851.
[2] In 1859, he found employment as an "assistant worker" at the library of the University of Göttingen and eventually received a professorship there in 1862, teaching "Theory and History of Music".