Nigel F. Palmer
Nigel Fenton Palmer FBA (born October 28, 1946 in Ashton-under-Lyne , Lancashire ) is a British German studies scholar and professor emeritus at Oxford University .
Life
Palmer studied from 1965 at Worcester College ( University of Oxford ). In 1967/68 he spent a year abroad at the University of Vienna . Back in Oxford, he graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts in modern foreign languages (German).
With a dissertation on the German and Dutch versions of the Visio Tnugdali , he was awarded a D.phil. PhD. He had been teaching German at Durham University since 1970 . In 1976 he was made a Fellow of Oriel College and Professor of Medieval German at Oxford University. In 1992 he received the Oxford Chair for German Medieval Studies , succeeding Peter Ganz . At the same time he became a Professorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall . He taught at Oxford until his retirement in 2012.
Palmer spent numerous research stays at the University of Würzburg , where he worked with Kurt Ruh ; In 1986/87 a Humboldt fellowship enabled him to spend a year researching in Berlin. Guest professorships took him to London, 1999/2000 to the University of Tübingen , 1998/99 ( Wolfgang Stammler guest professorship for Germanic Philology) to the University of Freiburg (Switzerland) and in the summer semester of 2006 to the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg .
He has been a member of the British Academy since 1997 and of the Commission for German Medieval Literature of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1993 . In 2007 he was awarded the Humboldt Research Prize. The following year he was elected a corresponding member of the Mediaeval Academy of America and in 2010 a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , philological-historical class.
Palmer is a fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg; his project here was a critical edition and commentary on the Begerin prayer book , together with Jeffrey F. Hamburger .
In 2012, together with Jürgen Wolf, he was an expert appraiser in the case of the sale of the Stralsund high school library . As a result of this report, the Hanseatic City of Stralsund is trying to reverse the sale and restore the broken collection.
In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern .
In 2017, the journal Oxford German Studies dedicated the special issue Vol. 46, No. 2: "German Manuscripts in Oxford" to Nigel Palmer.
Publications (selection)
- "Visio Tnugdali": the German and Dutch translations and their circulation in the later Middle Ages. Munich; Zurich: Artemis-Verlag 1982 (Munich texts and studies on German literature of the Middle Ages 76) Zugl .: Oxford, Univ., Diss., 1975 ISBN 3-7608-3376-4
- with Klaus Speckenbach: dreams and herbs. Studies on the Petroneller 'Circa instans' handwriting and on the German dream books of the Middle Ages. Cologne and Vienna 1990 (= Pictura et poesis. Interdisciplinary studies on the relationship between literature and art , 4)
- German Literary Culture in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on March 4, 1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993
- The Latin-German 'Berlin nativity prognosis'. In: Josef Domes, Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Christoph Weißer, Volker Zimmermann (eds.): Light of nature. Medicine in specialist literature and poetry. Festschrift for Gundolf Keil on his 60th birthday. Kümmerle, Göppingen 1994, ISBN 3-87452-829-4 , pp. 251-291.
- Cistercians and their books. The medieval library history of Eberbach Monastery in the Rheingau. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 1998
- Ed., With Christoph Gerhardt: The Munich poem of the 15 characters before the Last Judgment. Edition and commentary. (Texts from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period) Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 2002
- Bible translation and salvation history: studies on the Freiburg pericope manuscript from 1462 and on the German-speaking lectionaries of the 15th century. With an appendix: German-language manuscripts, incunabula and early prints from Freiburg library holdings up to around 1600. (Wolfgang Stammler Visiting Professorship for German Philology 9) Berlin: De Gruyter 2007 ISBN 9783110918151 (with curriculum vitae , p. 225, and list of publications 1973-2007)
- with Jeffrey F. Hamburger: The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin. Volume 1: Art-Historical and Literary Introduction. With a Conservation Report by Ulrike Bürger. Volume 2: Reproductions and Critical Edition. Urs Graf, Dietikon-Zurich, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85951-280-1 .
- Teaching texts for the lecture 'Osterspiele' at Oxford University with an English introduction: Osterspiel by Muri , Innsbrucker Osterspiel
Web links
- Oxford University website
- Literature by and about Nigel F. Palmer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by Nigel F. Palmer in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/das-institut/archiv-frias/school-of-lili/fellows/palmer_lili
- ↑ Opinion on the cultural and historical value of the Stralsund "Gymnasialbibliothek" is available (11/20/2012) , accessed on November 20, 2012
- ^ Opinion on the cultural and historical value of the Stralsund high school library ( memento from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 20, 2012
- ^ German Manuscripts in Oxford. In Honor of Nigel F. Palmer. In: Oxford German Studies. Routledge, 2017, accessed January 16, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Palmer, Nigel F. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Palmer, Nigel Fenton (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British German studies scholar and professor emeritus at Oxford University |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ashton-under-Lyne , Lancashire |