Ulrich Luz (23 February 1938 – 13 October 2019[1]) was a Swiss theologian and professor emeritus at the University of Bern.
He studied Protestant theology in Zurich, Göttingen and Basel under Hans Conzelmann, Eduard Schweizer and Gerhard Ebeling.
He was the New Testament professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland until his retirement in 2003.
[2] Luz served as president of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas in 1998.
[3] In 2010, he was awarded the Burkitt Medal by the British Academy 'in recognition of special service to Biblical Studies'.