Herrmann Rudolf Jungraithmayr (born 7 May 1931) is an Austrian Africanist and retired university professor.
Until 1996, he was the chair of African linguistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
From 1956 to 1959, he was a lecturer at the Goethe-Institut Cairo, and taught at Orman and Ibrahimiyya high schools.
From 1985 to 1996 he was chair of African linguistics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
[1] Jungraithmayr has carried out extensive documentation of Chadic languages spoken in Central Africa.