Jean Bollack (15 March 1923 – 4 December 2012) was a French philosopher, philologist and literary critic.

He first studied classical philology at the University of Basel, among others with Peter von der Mühll [de] and Albert Béguin, and from 1945 at the University of Paris where he began working under the direction of Hellenist Pierre Chantraine.

[1][2] He then established the "Centre de recherche philologique" in Lille, which he ran for some years and to which his friend Heinz Wismann participated.

[2][3] According to Barbara Cassin, his philological work is remarkable for its "extraordinary textual vigilance".

[4] In addition to his work as a Hellenist with his wife and collaborator Mayotte Bollack, he has published studies on the poetry of Paul Celan.