Gottlob Ernst Schulze (German: [ˈʃʊltsə]; 23 August 1761 – 14 January 1833) was a German philosopher, born in Heldrungen (modern-day Thuringia, Germany).

Schulze was a professor at Wittenberg, Helmstedt, and Göttingen.

[1] His most influential book was Aenesidemus (1792), a skeptical polemic against Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Philosophy of the Elements.

In Göttingen, he advised his student Arthur Schopenhauer to concentrate on the philosophies of Plato and Kant.

In the winter semester of 1810 and 1811, Schopenhauer studied both psychology and metaphysics under Schulze.