Born in 1944, Thomas Bullinger is an art historian and museum director in Viborg, Denmark. He studied in Frankfurt, Freiburg and Zurich.

Together with Asger Pedersen he translated Peter Seeberg, Johannes Bobrowski and Joseph Brodsky, whose "Guide to a renamed City" was published in Denmark in 2016 under the title "Piter. En bog om St. Petersborg".