Emil Albert Friedberg (22 December 1837, in Konitz – 7 September 1910, in Leipzig) was a German canonist.
His Jewish parents had joined the Evangelical Church in Prussia before his birth, letting him baptised Protestant.
After having been a member of the faculty at Berlin, Halle, and Freiberg, he was appointed professor at Leipzig in 1869.
[2] The new critical edition of the Corpus Juris Canonici (1879–81) was prepared by Friedberg, as was also the Formelbuch des deutschen Handels-, Wechsel-, und Seerechts (third edition, 1894).
Alike in his collaboration in the Prussian church laws of 1872 and as an author, he showed himself a champion of state supremacy in ecclesiastical matters, and many of his works deal with this subject in its various bearings.