Paul Gerhard Schmidt (25 March 1937 – 25 September 2010) was a German medievalist and professor emeritus of medieval Latin philology.
He took his abitur in 1956 at the Evangelischen Gymnasium in Berlin-Grunewald, and studied classical and medieval Latin philology in Berlin and Göttingen.
He received his Ph.D. in July 1962 from the University of Göttingen, with the dissertation Supplemente lateinischer Prosa in der Neuzeit: Ein Überblick über Rekonstruktionsversuche zu lateinischen Autoren von der Renaissance bis zur Aufklärung, and then went to Rome where after a two-year study of Auxiliary sciences of history he received the diploma Palaeographus et Archivarius Vaticanus.
He was editor or co-editor of the series Datierte Handschriften in Bibliotheken der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, and the journal Itineraria: Letteratura di viaggio e conoscenza del mondo dall’Antichità al Rinascimento.
Schmidt directed 16 dissertations (including that by Johannes Schilling and 3 habilitations (Udo Kühne, Thomas Haye and Elisabeth Stein).