Erland Munch-Petersen (28 March 1930 – 12 May 1997) was a Danish literary scholar and professor at the University of Gothenburg.
in general and comparative literature from the University of Copenhagen in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1978 for his thesis on Romanens århundrede.
Studier i den masselæste oversatte roman i Danmark 1800-1870.
From 1969, he was head of the Danmarks Biblioteksskole (now the Royal School of Library and Information Science).
He was the general editor of the Guide to Nordic bibliography, published by the Nordisk Ministerrad in 1984.