Nigel F Palmer

Nigel F. Palmer in front of the Ashmolean Museum (1997)

Nigel Fenton Palmer FBA (* 28 October 1946 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is a British Germanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

Career

Nigel F. Palmer read Modern Languages at Worcester College, Oxford where he graduated in 1969 with a First class degree after spending his Year Abroad in Vienna. In 1970 he took up a position as Lecturer in German at Durham University. His DPhil thesis (1975) was on the German and Dutch versions of the Visio Tnugdali. He was made a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1976 and Professor for Medieval German Literature and Language in 1992 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford as successor of Peter Ganz.

Nigel F. Palmer showing the facsimile of the de:Osterspiel von Muri in the Taylorian Institute

Research Projects

Selected Publications

References

  1. at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

External links

Academic offices
Preceded by
Peter Ganz
Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature, Oxford University
1992-2013
Succeeded by
Henrike Lähnemann
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