János Harmatta

{{Short description|Hungarian linguist (1917 – 2004)}}

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János Harmatta (2 October 1917 – 24 July 2004) was a Hungarian linguist. He deciphered the Parthian ostraca and papyri of Dura-Europos and was the first to decipher a major Bactrian inscription.Ritoók, Zsigmond. (1997) [http://epa.niif.hu/01400/01462/00020/pdf/005-015.pdf "The contribution of Hungary to international classical scholarship"], Hungarian Studies, 12. Retrieved 12 March 2014. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306051320/http://epa.niif.hu/01400/01462/00020/pdf/005-015.pdf |date=2014-03-06 }}

He taught as a professor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.