Martin Hose

Martin Hose (born 8 April 1961 in Wathlingen) is a German classical philologist.

After achieving the Abitur in 1981, Hose studied classical philology, history, and education at the Universities of Hamburg and Konstanz and graduated in 1988 from Konstanz with the Staatsexamen and the master of arts. After that, he taught at University College London from 1988 to 1989 and at the University of Konstanz from 1988 to 1994, where received his doctorate in 1990 for a work on the Chorus in Euripides and his habilitation in 1993 for a work on the historians of the Roman empire from Florus to Cassius Dio. In 1994 he received a position at the University of Greifswald and he also taught at the University of Heidelberg part-time until 1995. Since 1997, Hose has held the Chair of Greek at the University of Munich.

Hose's research focuses are Greek drama, historiography, Hellenistic poetry and Greek literature of the Imperial period.

Alongside his scholarly activities, Hose is also active in university politics. From 1999 until 2001, he was Dean of the Faculty of Language and Literature at the University of Munich. Since 2002 he has been a member of the University Senate of the University of Munich and he became its chairman in 2007. In this role, Hose is also ex officio deputy chairman of the university council.

From 1995 until 2001, he was a board member of the Mommsen Society. Since 2001, Hose has been an ordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.Since 2004 he has been a board member of the Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques. In addition, he has been a co-editor of the review journal, Gnomon since 2000.