Benjamin Schwartz (d. 1981) was an American linguist whose work focused on the ancient languages of the Near East and the Indo-European language family. Active in the mid-twentieth century, he contributed to the study of Anatolian languages such as Hittite and Luwian—some of the earliest recorded Indo-European languages—helping to illuminate their structure and historical development. His research engaged with complex linguistic artifacts and texts, including efforts to interpret fragmentary inscriptions and lesser-understood written materials.
Schwartz was part of a generation of scholars working to reconstruct early language systems from limited archaeological evidence. His work required close collaboration between linguistics, philology, and archaeology, and he was particularly interested in how ancient writing systems encoded language. Although not widely known outside specialist circles, his contributions supported broader efforts to understand the origins and evolution of Indo-European languages and the cultures that used them.