Gudmund Schütte (17 January 1872– 12 July 1958) was a Danish philologist, historian and writer who specialized in Germanic studies.

His paternal grandfather, the landowner August Theodor Schütte, was a German immigrant from Perleberg, Germany.

[3] The same year, Schütte established the Society for Germanic Philology (Danish: Selskabet for germansk filologi).

With his financial independence secured, Schütte was free to pursue his scientific pursuits without being affiliated with any university or spending time on lecturing.

[2] In subsequent years, Schütte wrote a number of important works on the early culture and history of the Germanic peoples.