Henrike Lähnemann Explained

Henrike Lähnemann
Birth Date:15 May 1968
Birth Place:Münster, Germany
Nationality:German
Discipline:Medieval studies

Henrike Lähnemann (born 15 May 1968 in Münster)[1] is a German medievalist and holds the Chair of Medieval German, University of Oxford.[2] She is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[3]

Career

Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian, and the granddaughter of the German medievalist (née Benary) and the archeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner; she grew up in Lüneburg and Nuremberg, Germany. She studied German literature, History of Art and Theology at the University of Bamberg, the University of Edinburgh, Free University of Berlin and University of Göttingen. She completed a PhD at the Universität Bamberg on late medieval didactic literature.

Lähnemann worked at the University of Tübingen, where she gained her Venia legendi in German Philology with a study of the Book of Judith in German medieval literature. She spent a year as a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow[4] at the University of Oxford and a semester as visiting professor at the University of Zurich. Between 2006 and 2014 she held the Chair of German Studies at Newcastle University, and was also Head of the German Section in Newcastle's School of Modern Languages. In 2010, the German Research Foundation nominated her for AcademiaNet,[5] the database of profiles of leading women scientists;[6] [7] she also chaired Women in German Studies 2009–2015. In 2015, she was appointed to the Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.[2] 2015–2024, she spends two months a year as a Senior Research Fellow at FRIAS, made possible by co-funding of the chair by the VolkswagenStiftung, the DAAD, and the University of Freiburg.

Her research focuses on medieval manuscripts, the relationship of text and images and how vernacular and Latin literature are connected, currently mainly in late medieval Northern German convents. At the moment she is working on a funded project to edit the letters of the nuns from Lüne (together with Eva Schlotheuber), and the edition of prayer books of the Medingen Convent.

Lähnemann's major topic is the engagement with the Reformation and printing. She brought a new linguistic and interdisciplinary angle to Reformation Studies in Oxford, completing the team of experts - Lyndal Roper and Diarmaid MacCulloch being counted among them. As part of the Translating, Printing, Singing the Reformation project a website[8] providing access to digitized Reformation pamphlets was launched, as well as a blog[9] and podcast[10] documenting the most recent activities of the Reformation team. Furthermore, book printing workshops[11] and new productions of key scenes from the Reformation[12] took place. The political relevance of the project becomes evident in the combination of Reformation and anti-Brexit ideas,[13] [14] but especially in the use of Reformation pamphlets for a protest-Hallelujah[15] [16] in the context of civil resistance in Hong Kong.

The author Angelika Overath dedicated her novel Sie dreht sich um[17] to Lähnemann.

Research projects

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Henrike Lähnemann. Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender Online. De Gruyter. Berlin, Boston. 2023-10-09.
  2. Web site: SML Chair of German Studies appointed to Chair in Oxford . . 2014-07-13 . 2014-10-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141017152907/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/about/news/item/Laehnemann . 2014-10-17 .
  3. Web site: Visitor, Principal and Fellows . . 2014-07-13 . 2014-10-12 .
  4. Web site: Details of the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford . 2013-08-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131023111211/http://aarts.chem.ox.ac.uk/main/vacancies.html . 2013-10-23 . dead .
  5. See also the AcademiaNet website; click on English in the top left-hand corner for a description of the initiative.
  6. Web site: An AcademiaNet interview with Henrike Lähnemann (in German): 'Eine spannende Umbruchssituation' . 2013-08-27 . 2013-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131023060454/http://academia-net.de/alias/Aktuelles/Eine-spannende-Umbruchssituation/1063291 . dead .
  7. http://www.academia-net.de/alias/Aktuelles/A-Voice-for-Medieval-and-Modern-German/1219528 An AcademiaNet interview with Henrike Lähnemann: 'A Voice for Medieval and Modern German'
  8. Web site: Taylor Editions/ Reformation. 27 August 2020.
  9. Web site: The Reformation at the Taylor Institution Library - A Bodleian Libraries blog. 27 August 2020.
  10. Web site: Podcast Reformation 2017. 27 August 2020.
  11. Web site: 23 February 2017. Print workshop at Bodleian Library. 27 August 2020.
  12. Web site: 1 November 2017. 500 year celebration of 95 Theses. 27 August 2020. Facebook.
  13. News: Lähnemann. Henrike. 29 June 2016. Devastated but determined. Consequences of Brexit for Academia. 27 August 2020. Faz.net.
  14. Web site: Lähnemann. Henrike. 14 August 2017. A UTOPIAN ISLAND? BREXIT IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT. 27 August 2020. University of Freiburg - FRIAS.
  15. Web site: Henrike Lähnemann. Wai Yip HO. 20 August 2019. The Reformation and Hongkong. 27 August 2020. YouTube.
  16. Web site: 17 June 2019. Sing hallelujah to the lord 2019 .6.16 Hong Kong. 27 August 2020. YouTube.
  17. Web site: Reading sample .
  18. Web site: Sermon von Ablass und Gnade. 27 August 2020. Taylor Editions.
  19. Web site: Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen, Open Access. Taylor Editions.

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