Johan Ernst Welhaven (October 30, 1775 – March 10, 1828) was a well-liked priest at St. George's Hospital Church in Bergen, Norway.

[7] In time, he became a teacher at the German school for the poor established in 1777 in connection with St. Mary's Church in Bergen.

[8] Welhaven's father-in-law, Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer (1730–1819), was a Danish curate at Holy Cross Church in Bergen.

In 1827/28 Welhaven received a prestigious position at the Bergen Cathedral, but he died just before he was to begin his duties there.

Many central figures in Norwegian culture and society are descendants of Johan Ernst Welhaven and Else Margrethe Cammermeyer.