Hans Peter Obermayer

PD Dr. Hans Peter Obermayer serves as a Privatdozent (equivalent to Associate Professor) in the Department of Classical Philology at LMU Munich's Faculty of History and Arts, where he maintains active teaching and research duties following his 2014 habilitation.

His academic trajectory includes:

• Dissertation (1998): 'Martial and the discourse on male 'homosexuality' in the literature of the early Imperial period' (University of Tübingen)
• Habilitation (2014): 'German Classical Scholars in American Exile: A Reconstruction' (De Gruyter)

His dual research focus examines Ancient Roman literary constructions of gender/sexuality—particularly through Martial's epigrams—and reconstructs the intellectual diaspora of German classicists displaced to America during National Socialism. This work positions him at the intersection of philological precision and critical historiography of academic knowledge production.

His publications reveal sustained engagement with marginalized historical narratives: analyzing taboo discourses in canonical Roman texts while documenting how political persecution reshaped classical scholarship's global landscape. The 2014 habilitation thesis represents a significant contribution to twentieth-century intellectual history through meticulous archival recovery of exiled scholars' trajectories.