Nahum Norbert Glatzer (March 25, 1903 – February 27, 1990) was an Austrian and American scholar of Jewish history and philosophy from antiquity to mid 20th century.

[3] After encountering the circle of Jewish intellectuals, including Franz Rosenzweig, around Rabbi Nehemiah Anton Nobel he decided against the rabbinate.

[4] In July 1920, Rosenzweig invited Glatzer to join the newly-established Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus,[5] where he taught biblical exegesis, Hebrew, and the Midrash.

[6] Glatzer completed a doctoral dissertation at the Goethe University Frankfurt in December 1931 under the supervision of Martin Buber, Paul Tillich and Jacob Horowitz.

[3] From there, he accepted a teaching position at the Hebrew College in Chicago and he, his wife, Anny née Stiebel, and son immigrated to the United States.

Glatzer’s first anthology Sendung und Schicksal [ET Mission and Fate] (edited with Ludwig Strauss) was published by Schocken Verlag in 1931.

[13] Glatzer introduced Franz Rosenzweig to an English readership through his biography, Rosenweig: His Life and Thought (1953)[14] and edited several more volumes on the philosopher.