Lars Johanson

Lars Johanson (8 March 1936 – 24 November 2025) was a Swedish Turcologist and linguist, who was professor at the University of Mainz, and docent at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala, Sweden. He was married to Éva Á. Csató prof. em. Uppsala University.

Johanson was instrumental in transforming the field of Turcology, which was traditionally more philologically oriented, into a linguistic discipline. Apart from his contributions to Turcology, Lars Johanson made a number of pioneering contributions to general linguistics and language typology, in particular to the typology of tense and aspect systems and the theory of language contact.