| Nikolaus P. Himmelmann | |
| Birth Date: | 2 August 1959 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Occupation: | Linguist |
| Main Interests: | Austronesian linguistics |
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (born 2 August 1959) is a German linguist. His interests include linguistic typology, grammar, prosody, and linguistic documentation.[1]
He obtained his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1986 and habilitation at the University of Cologne in 1995. From 1996 to 1998, he was a research fellow at the Australian National University. Afterwards, he was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum (1999–2007) and at Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster (2007–2010). In 2010, he was appointed Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Cologne.[2]
He is the co-editor of the book The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar (2005).[3]
He was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2018.[4]