Bruno Barbatti (September 27, 1926 – March 31, 2020)[1] was a Swiss scholar and writer.
He was born in Zurich to an Italian father and a German mother.
He studied at the universities of Fribourg, Paris (Sorbonne), Florence and Zurich, where he obtained a doctorate in German.
He did extensive field work in Morocco, especially Marrakech, where his wife Dominique was a high school teacher for several years.
He married the French writer and teacher Dominique Abadie.