Ernst Höpfner (3 June 1836, Rawitsch – 28 February 1915, Göttingen) was a German educator and philologist.
In 1859, he became an Oberlehrer in Neuruppin, later serving as a director at the Realschule zum Heiligen Geist in Breslau (from 1868).
In 1873, he was appointed Provinzialschulrat in Koblenz, and from 1888 onward, was associated with the Ministry of Culture in Berlin.
[1] In 1868, with philologist Julius Zacher, he founded the journal, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie.
[2] In 1890, he founded the Gesellschaft für deutsche Erziehungs- und Schulgeschichte ("Society for German education and school history").