Professor Nigel F Palmer FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1997
Year of birth
1946
Year of death
2022
Subjects
Medieval studies, Modern languages

Last post

Emeritus Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, University of Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Medieval German

2017 -

University of Oxford Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies

1992 -

University of Oxford University Lecturer, Professor of Medieval German and Linguistic Studies

1976 -

University of Durham Lecturer

1970 - 1976

Publications

‘Visio Tnugdali'. The German and Dutch translations and their circulation in the later Middle Ages 1982

Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher. Die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau 1998

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