| Birth Date: | 13 September 1913 |
| Birth Place: | Brooklyn, New York |
| Death Place: | Bennington, Vermont |
| Education: | Columbia University University of Oxford |
| Office: | President of Bennington College |
| Term Start: | 1947 |
| Term End: | 1949 |
| Predecessor: | Lewis Webster Jones |
| Termstart2: | 1952 |
| Termend2: | 1957 |
| Successor2: | William C. Fels |
Frederick Burkhardt (13 September 1913 – 23 September 2007)[1] was an American educator and foundation administrator. He was President of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), then after his retirement devoted decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin.
He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Dr. Burkhardt served as President of Bennington College in Vermont from 1947 to 1949 and from 1952 to 1957.[2] [3]
Burkhardt graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1940. He also earned a second bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford in 1935.
Burkhardt died on September 23, 2007, in Bennington, Vermont.[4]