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Nigel F. Palmer
Honorific Suffix:M.A., D.Phil., FBA
Birth Name:Nigel Fenton Palmer
Birth Date:28 October 1946
Birth Place:Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England
Death Place:Oxford, England
Occupation:University lecturer, medievalist
Education:Hyde Grammar School
Alma Mater:Worcester College, Oxford
Thesis Title:"Visio Tnugdali": the German and Dutch translations and their circulation in the later Middle Ages
Thesis Year:1975
Doctoral Advisor:Peter Ganz
Discipline:German language and literature
Sub Discipline:Medieval German Literature

Nigel Fenton Palmer FBA (28 October 1946 – 8 May 2022) was a British Germanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

Career

Nigel F. Palmer went to Hyde Grammar School and then read Modern Languages at Worcester College, Oxford where he graduated in 1969 with a first class degree after spending his year abroad in Vienna.[1] 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 of Medieval German Literature and Language from 1992 to 2012 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford as successor to Peter Ganz.[2] [3]

He worked on a wide range of topics in mediaeval German language and literature, among them the ‘Literary topography of South West Germany in the later Middle Ages’, an attempt to establish a literary history of this region on the basis of the manuscript sources and library history (Latin and German). Other areas of special interest were blockbooks and their place in early printing history, the interface between Latin literature and German literature in the Middle Ages, and palaeography and codicology of the period 1100–1550. He was a member of the British Academy since 1997. His work as editor of Oxford German Studies was featured in the celebratory volume 50/4.[4] In 2022, he was awarded the inaugural Meister-Eckhart-Forschungspreis.

Selected publications

A full list of publications to 2007 will be found in Bibelübersetzung und Heilsgeschichte.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Volfing . Annette . Nigel Palmer . British Academy.
  2. https://gazette.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/gazette/documents/media/professors_and_readers_emeritus_listed_in_the_2017-18_calendar.pdf "N F Palmer"
  3. Web site: Remembering Emeritus Fellow Professor Nigel Palmer . 2022-05-10 . St Edmund Hall . en-GB.
  4. Reed . Jim . Lähnemann . Henrike . 2 October 2021 . The OGS Editors . Oxford German Studies . en . 50 . 4 . 389–397 . 10.1080/00787191.2021.2021022 . 248003093 . 0078-7191. free .

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