Friedrich Eduard König (November 15, 1846 – February 10, 1936, Bonn) was a German Lutheran divine and Semitic scholar.
He was born at Reichenbach im Vogtland and was educated at the University of Leipzig (1867–71).
Afterwards, he worked as a religious instructor at the Royal Realgymnasium in Döbeln (1871–76) and at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig (1876–79).
[1] He then became a lecturer (1879) and an associate professor of theology (1885) at the University of Leipzig.
In 1888 he became a full professor at Rostock and in 1900 at the University of Bonn,[2] where, as a theologian attacking Panbabylonism, he became involved in the so-called "Babel-Bible Dispute".