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
- Edition and commentary on the Begerin-Gebetbuch with Jeffrey F. Hamburger.[1]
Selected Publications
- "Visio Tnugdali": the German and Dutch translations and their circulation in the later Middle Ages. München; Zürich: Artemis-Verlag 1982 (Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters 76) also: Oxford, Univ., Diss., 1975 ISBN 3-7608-3376-4
- German Literary Culture in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 4 March 1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993
- Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher. Die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 1998
- (ed. with Christoph Gerhardt): Das Münchner Gedicht von den 15 Zeichen vor dem Jüngsten Gericht. Edition und Kommentar. (Texte des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit) Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 2002
- Bibelübersetzung und Heilsgeschichte: Studien zur Freiburger Perikopenhandschrift von 1462 und zu den deutschsprachigen Lektionaren des 15. Jahrhunderts. Mit einem Anhang: Deutschsprachige Handschriften, Inkunabeln und Frühdrucke aus Freiburger Bibliotheksbesitz bis ca. 1600. (Wolfgang Stammler Gastprofessur für Germanische Philologie 9) Berlin: de Gruyter 2007 ISBN 9783110918151 (with Curriculum Vitae, p. 225, and List of Publications 1973-2007)
References
- ↑ at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
External links
- Website University of Oxford
- Literature by and about Nigel F Palmer in the German National Library catalogue
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| Preceded by Peter Ganz |
Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature, Oxford University 1992-2013 |
Succeeded by Henrike Lähnemann |
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