Dr. Mag. phil.

PETER ROHRBACHER

researcher

peter.rohrbacher(a)oeaw.ac.at
 + 43 1 51581 - 6479


SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Peter Rohrbacher is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the ÖAW. His research focuses on the academic history in the fields of cultural and social anthropology, African and Oriental studies. He is the author of the book “Die Geschichte des Hamiten-Mythos” (Vienna 2002, i.e. A History of the Hamitic Myth). In 2013, he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (Veronika Lipphardt). As a collaborator in the project “Pius XI and Austria” (Rupert Klieber, Vienna), he is investigating the influential role of Father Wilhelm Schmidt SVD in the Roman Curia using files from the Vatican Secret Archives. He is co-editor (with Andre Gingrich) of the three-volume book “Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien (1938–1945)” (Vienna 2021). His current research projects examine the scholarly history of Viennese Caucasus and “Turkestan” research during the Nazi period (ÖAW-funded) and the ecclesiastical and political networks of “Völkerkunde” from Austria in the interwar period (Austrian Fund Science P33427).


MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

  • History of Anthropology
  • History of African and Oriental studies
  • History of Catholic Church and Nazism

CURRENT PROJECTS (PROJECT LEADER)

PROJECTS

CV – TALKS – PUBLICATIONS

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/Institute/ISA/mitarbeiter/rohrbacher_cvpub.pdf
 

WEBSITE

https://oeaw.academia.edu/PeterRohrbacher

CV AND PUBLICATIONS


CV and PUBLICATIONS