Edmund Hildebrandt (29 April 1872 – 13 January 1939) was a German art historian. Hildebrandt was born in Berlin to businessman Georg Franz Hildebrandt (1843–1910) and Theone Hildebrandt née Wolkoff (1839–1901). In 1907 he married teacher Ottilie Schlesinger (1872–1939) in a civil ceremony, despite Ottilie being from a well known Jewish merchant family. The couple had a son in 1909, Franz, and moved into the affluent Charlottenburg area of Berlin. Hildebrandt considered himself a pantheist, and his son Franz Hildebrandt later became a renowned theologian and pastor. Hildebrandt suffered from agoraphobia, which manifested itself in his choice of small auditoriums for lectures.