John George Robertson, FBA (18 January 1867, Glasgow – 29 May 1933, London) was a philologist and professor of German language and literature.
At the University of London, he became in 1903 Professor of German Language and Literature[1] and in 1924 Director of the Department of Scandinavian Studies.
He wrote several books dealing with the literature of Germany and about a dozen articles for the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
[1] At the University of Oxford he delivered the 1924 Taylorian Lecture with title The Gods of Greece in German Poetry.
After his death his successor, and former pupil, Edna Purdie completed his work on Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie which was published in 1939.