Harald Haarmann (born 1946) is a German linguist and cultural scientist who lives and works in Finland. Haarmann studied general linguistics, various philological disciplines and prehistory at the universities of Hamburg, Bonn, Coimbra and Bangor. Haarmann is the author of more than 40 books in German, English, Spanish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and nearly 200 articles and essays in ten languages.
Entwicklung der Schrift und der schriftlichen Kultur - logographische und phonographische Schriftsysteme - ein Versuch der systematischen Ordnung (fast) aller Schriftsysteme der Welt als zentrale Kulturleistung der Menschheit in den diversen Gesellschaften.