Prof. Dr. Nigel F. Palmer
University of Oxford
Medieval German Language and Literature
External Senior Fellow
April 2014 – July 2014
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
July 2010 – December 2010
Last Update: 31.08.2014
Curriculum Vitae
Nigel Palmer, born 28 October 1946 in Ashton under Lyne/UK, retired as Professor of Medieval German in the University of Oxford in the autumn of 2012. After studying at the University of Oxford (Worcester College) from 1965-1970, with a year at the University of Vienna, he took up his first permanent post as a lecturer at the University of Durham in 1970 and moved to a position at Oriel College Oxford in 1976. He was promoted to the chair in German Medieval and Linguistic Studies in 1992. He is a fellow of the British Academy and corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. In 2007 he was awarded the Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He publishes mostly on Medieval German manuscripts, Medieval German religious literature, the Cistercian Order in the Middle Ages, and Early Printing (lockbooks).