Josip Bratulić (born 2 February 1939) is a Croatian philologist, historian of literature and culture, and academic.

He attended a gymnasium in Pazin, graduating in Croatian studies and comparative literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.

At the same university he received his master's degree and a doctorate, with a thesis on Croatian Glagolism.

He served as a dean in the period 1991-1993, and since 2000 he has been a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

[1][2][3] Bratulić participated in the preparation of a large number of cultural and scientific events, such as the exhibition Pisana riječ u Hrvatskoj ("The Written Word in Croatia"), and the development of the ethnopark Glagolitic Alley Roč–Hum together with Želimir Janeš.