George William Edward Ernest von Zedlitz (10 March 1871– 24 May 1949) was a New Zealand professor of modern languages.

On 4 January 1905[2] he married Alice Maud Fitzgerald the eldest daughter of Lower Hutt mayor William Alfred Fitzherbert, who built a house Norbury in Lower Hutt (now Minoh Friendship House) for them.

The subsequent passing of the Alien Enemy Teachers Act 1915 [3] enabled the Government to overrule the university.

[5] In May 1979, Victoria University of Wellington officially opened the Von Zedlitz building on their Kelburn campus.

[8] Between 1906 and 1917, George von Zedlitz was the guide and the teacher of the younger days of Diamond Jenness, a pioneer of Canadian anthropology.