Jes Peter Asmussen (2 November 1928 – 5 August 2002), was a Danish Iranologist.
He studied theology and the Greenlandic language at the University of Copenhagen and earned his candidatus theologiæ degree in 1954.
He then studied Iranistics in Cambridge, London, Hamburg, and Tehran, and earned his doctorate in 1965 at the University of Copenhagen.
He was mostly interested in Manicheism, but also wrote about Zoroastrianism, Islam and Christianity in ancient Iran, as well as the Judeo-Persian language and literature.
[4] He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1976[2] and received an honorary doctorate from Lund University in 1986.