Fritz Bamberger (7 January 1902 – 21 September 1984) was a German Jewish Scholar, educator and magazine editor who directed the school system for the education of Jews in pre- World War II, was the editor-in-chief of Coronet starting in 1942, and taught and wrote in the areas of philosophy and intellectual history.
Bamberger also studied at and graduated from the Hochschule die Wissenschaft des Judentums, where he subsequently taught philosophy from 1933 to 1934.
From 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the Forschungsinstitut (research institute) of the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Academy for the Science of Judaism) in Berlin, working on books about Maimonides and Gabirol, and serving as one of the editors of the Akademieausgabe (Academy Edition) of a work on Moses Mendelssohn's collected writings (Moses Mendelssohn: Gesammelte Schriften).
In 1934 he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Education for Jews in Berlin and President of the Jewish Teachers College, In January 1939, after having been arrested and briefly held by the Nazi government, Bamberger and his family emigrated to Chicago, Ill. From 1939 to 1942 he taught philosophy and comparative literature at the College of Jewish Studies and the University of Chicago.
In 1962 Bamberger resigned from Esquire to return to academic life, becoming Assistant to the President and Professor of Intellectual History at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York.