diff --git a/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/EntityTypeLabelRestController.java b/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/EntityTypeLabelRestController.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14d01b8c76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/EntityTypeLabelRestController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/**
+ * The contents of this file are subject to the license and copyright
+ * detailed in the LICENSE and NOTICE files at the root of the source
+ * tree and available online at
+ *
+ * http://www.dspace.org/license/
+ */
+package org.dspace.app.rest;
+
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+
+import org.dspace.app.rest.converter.ConverterService;
+import org.dspace.app.rest.model.EntityTypeRest;
+import org.dspace.app.rest.utils.ContextUtil;
+import org.dspace.app.rest.utils.Utils;
+import org.dspace.content.EntityType;
+import org.dspace.content.factory.ContentServiceFactory;
+import org.dspace.content.service.EntityTypeService;
+import org.dspace.core.Context;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.ResourceNotFoundException;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
+
+/**
+ * This controller will handle all the incoming calls on the /api/core/entitytypes/label/<:entity-type-label> endpoint
+ * where the entity-type-label parameter can be filled in to match a specific entityType by label
+ * There's always at most one entity type per label.
+ * <p>
+ * It responds with:
+ * <p>
+ * The single entity type if there's a match
+ * 404 if the entity type doesn't exist
+ *
+ * @author Maria Verdonck (Atmire) on 2019-12-13
+ */
+@RestController
+@RequestMapping("/api/" + EntityTypeRest.CATEGORY + "/" + EntityTypeRest.NAME_PLURAL)
+public class EntityTypeLabelRestController {
+
+    protected final EntityTypeService entityTypeService = ContentServiceFactory.getInstance().getEntityTypeService();
+
+    @Autowired
+    protected ConverterService converter;
+
+    @Autowired
+    protected Utils utils;
+
+    @GetMapping("/label/{entity-type-label}")
+    public EntityTypeRest get(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response,
+                              @PathVariable("entity-type-label") String label) {
+        Context context = ContextUtil.obtainContext(request);
+        try {
+            EntityType entityType = this.entityTypeService.findByEntityType(context, label);
+            if (entityType == null) {
+                throw new ResourceNotFoundException("There was no entityType found with label: " + label);
+            }
+            return converter.toRest(entityType, utils.obtainProjection());
+        } catch (SQLException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage(), e);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/model/EntityTypeRest.java b/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/model/EntityTypeRest.java
index fecd065815..454e5a82b6 100644
--- a/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/model/EntityTypeRest.java
+++ b/dspace-server-webapp/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/rest/model/EntityTypeRest.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import org.dspace.app.rest.RestResourceController;
 public class EntityTypeRest extends BaseObjectRest<Integer> {
 
     public static final String NAME = "entitytype";
+    public static final String NAME_PLURAL = "entitytypes";
     public static final String CATEGORY = "core";
 
     public String getCategory() {
diff --git a/dspace-server-webapp/src/test/java/org/dspace/app/rest/EntityTypeLabelRestControllerIT.java b/dspace-server-webapp/src/test/java/org/dspace/app/rest/EntityTypeLabelRestControllerIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e75d639cd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dspace-server-webapp/src/test/java/org/dspace/app/rest/EntityTypeLabelRestControllerIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/**
+ * The contents of this file are subject to the license and copyright
+ * detailed in the LICENSE and NOTICE files at the root of the source
+ * tree and available online at
+ *
+ * http://www.dspace.org/license/
+ */
+package org.dspace.app.rest;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.get;
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.jsonPath;
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.status;
+
+import org.dspace.app.rest.test.AbstractEntityIntegrationTest;
+import org.dspace.content.EntityType;
+import org.dspace.content.service.EntityTypeService;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+
+/**
+ * Integration tests for the {@link org.dspace.app.rest.EntityTypeLabelRestController} controlled endpoints
+ *
+ * @author Maria Verdonck (Atmire) on 16/12/2019
+ */
+public class EntityTypeLabelRestControllerIT extends AbstractEntityIntegrationTest {
+
+    @Autowired
+    private EntityTypeService entityTypeService;
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetEntityTypeByLabel_ExistingLabel() throws Exception {
+        String testLabel = "Person";
+        EntityType entityType = entityTypeService.findByEntityType(context, testLabel);
+        getClient().perform(get("/api/core/entitytypes/label/" + testLabel))
+                .andExpect(status().isOk())
+                .andExpect(jsonPath("$.id", is(entityType.getID())))
+                .andExpect(jsonPath("$.label", containsString(testLabel)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetEntityTypeByLabel_NonExistentLabel() throws Exception {
+        String testLabel = "Person2";
+        getClient().perform(get("/api/core/entitytypes/label" + testLabel))
+                .andExpect(status().isNotFound());
+    }
+}