Gotthelf is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name: Gotthelf Bergsträsser (1886–1933), German linguist specializing in Semitic studies Esriel Gotthelf Carlebach (1909–1956), journalist during the early days of the state of Israel Carl Gotthelf Gerlach (1704–1761), German organist, took over the Leipzig Collegium Musicum from J S Bach Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf (1804–1874), German librarian, most notable for his work at the Leipzig University Library Gotthelf Greiner (1732–1797), German glassmaker Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (1786–1851), German classical scholar Karl Gotthelf von Hund (1722–1776), German freemason Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719–1800), German mathematician and epigrammatist Julius Gotthelf Kühn or Julius Kühn (1825–1910), German academic and agronomist Karl Gotthelf Lehmann (1812–1863), German physiological chemist Johann Gotthelf Lindner (1729–1776), German university teacher and writer Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann (1796–1840), Saxon cartographer, astronomer, meteorologist and patron of the sciences Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus (1893–1968), German zoologist at University of São Paulo Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (1671–1738), scholarly German librarian at the University of Jena Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771–1853), German and Russian anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist

Surname: Allan Gotthelf (1942–2013), American philosopher and scholar Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854), pen name of Swiss novelist Albert Bitzius Michael Gotthelf (born 1953), German journalist and banker

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