Name Janos Harmatta Role Linguist | Awards Academy Prize | |
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Died July 24, 2004, Budapest, Hungary Books Selected Writings: West and East in the Unity of the Ancient World | ||
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.
He taught as a professor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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