Harald Haarmann, PhD, is a German linguist and cultural scientist. He has taught and conducted research at a number of German and Japanese universities. Since 2003 he has been vice president of the Institute of Archaeomythology and director of its European Branch. Dr. Haarmann is the author of more than fifty books in German, English, Spanish, Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and other languages, among them three world histories (of writing, languages, and numbers). His fields of study are cultural history, ancient civilizations, archaeomythology, philosophy, history of religion, writing history, language evolution, and research on identity. For his work, he received the Prix logos awarded by the Association europeenne des linguistes et des professeurs de langues (Paris) and the Premio Jean Monnet for essay writing
