Oliver Primavesi is full professor and chair of Greek at the University of Munich (LMU). He will be visiting TIDA in December 2025.

1982–1988 Reading Classics at the University of Heidelberg.
1984–1985 Visiting Student at Magdalen College Oxford
1988 Final Examination (Latin and Greek) at the University of Heidelberg.
Thesis: On the term Pistis in Aristotle’s Rhetoric. 1994 PhD (University of Frankfurt). Thesis: on Aristotle’s Topics, with commentary on Top. II.
1994–1998 Assistant Professor in Classics, University of Frankfurt.
1997 Habilitation in Classics at the University of Frankfurt. Thesis: On the Strasburg papyrus of Empedocles (P. Strasb. inv. 1665/66).
1998–2000 Associate Professor in Classics, University of Frankfurt.
1999 Prix Reinach of the Association pour l’Encouragement des Études Grecques en France, Paris.
2000 Prix Joseph Gantrelle of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Brussels. Since 2000 Full Professor and Chair of Greek (I) at the University of Munich (LMU).
2005–2006 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.
2007 Leibniz-Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
2008 Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy;
Full member of the German National Academy (Leopoldina)
2010 Order of merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2023–2024 Fellow at the Einstein-Centre "Chronoi" in Berlin
2025 Docteur honoris causa of the Sorbonne Université, Paris

For a list of publications see Oliver Primavesi's page on the LMU website.