János Harmatta

The native form of this personal name is Harmatta János. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

János Harmatta
Born	(1917-10-02)2 October 1917 Hódmezővásárhely, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	24 July 2004(2004-07-24) (aged 86) Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	Indo-European linguistics

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.^[1]

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

Literary works

• Harmatta János (1917-): Forrástanulmányok Herodotos Skythika-jához = Quellenstudien zu den Skythika des Herodot / irta Harmatta János ()

References and sources

References

1. Ritoók, Zsigmond. (1997) "The contribution of Hungary to international classical scholarship", Hungarian Studies, 12. Retrieved 12 March 2014. Archived 2014-03-06 at the Wayback Machine

Sources

• Harmatta János (1917-): Forrástanulmányok Herodotos Skythika-jához = Quellenstudien zu den Skythika des Herodot / irta Harmatta János
• Ferenczy Endre (1912-1990): Az ókori Róma története : [egyetemi tankönyv] / Ferenczy Endre, Maróti Egon, Hahn István ; szerk. Harmatta János
• Szabó Miklós (1940-): Hellasz fénykora : Görögország az i.e. V. században / Szabó Miklós ; [a szövegben szereplő prózai idézetek Devecseri Gábor et al. fordításai]
• Studies in the sources on the history of Pre-Islamic Central Asia / [by R. Ghirshman ... et al.] ; ed. by J. Harmatta
• Prolegomena to the sources on the history of Pre-Islamic Central Asia / [by P. Aalto ... et al.] ; ed. by J. Harmatta