Friedrich Christian Leonhard Bartholomae (21 January 1855 – 9 August 1925) was a German linguist, philologist, and scholar of the Iranian languages.

[1][2] Bartholomae was born in Forst ob Limmersdorf [de], then a part of the Kingdom of Bavaria, on 21 January 1855 to a forester father.

[1] Afterward, he studied at the University of Leipzig, focusing on Sanskrit and comparative philology.

[1][2] During his time there, he developed and published his work on what would later be known as Bartholomae's law, solving a sound problem in Proto-Indo-Iranian.

However, the same year, he left his appointment yet again to teach at Heidelberg University, where he taught comparative philology and Sanskrit until he retired in 1924.