Nigel F. Palmer

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

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

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 of Medieval German Literature and Language from 1992 to 2012 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford as successor to Peter Ganz..[1]

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.[2]

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. ISBN 3795411890
• (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)
• (ed. with Jeffrey F. Hamburger): The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin: Reproductions and critical edition. Dietlikon: Urs Graf 2015 ISBN 9783859512801
• "Medieval German Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries", Oxford German Studies 47:2 special issue: German manuscripts in Oxford. In honour of Nigel F. Palmer, 126-140. Open access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2017.1326525

References

1. "N F Palmer". gazette.web.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2 September 2018.
2. at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

External links

• University of Oxford Faculty Profile
• Literature by and about Nigel F. Palmer in the German National Library catalogue

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