Nikolaus Henkel

Nikolaus Henkel (born April 24, 1945 in Zella-Mehlis ) is a German specialist in German.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1965 at the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück , he did military service from 1965 to 1967 . From 1967 to 1972 he studied German, Classical and Middle Latin Philology (1972 state examination ( LMU Munich ), 1973 Magister Artium (LMU Munich ), 1974 doctorate (LMU Munich)). From 1974 to 1975 he was a trainee teacher at the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich . From 1975 to 1978 he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin (chair Ingeborg Schröbler ). From 1978 to 1984 he taught there as an assistant professor. After his habilitation in 1983/1984 at the Free University of Berlin : Venia legendi for German Philology, he taught at the Universities of Berlin (Free University) (1975–1983), Göttingen (1984), Regensburg (1985–1996), Hamburg (1996–2010), Freiburg im Breisgau ( honorary professor since 2011). Wolfgang Stammler Professorship 2006/2007 at the University of Friborg , Center d'Études médiévales. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies ( FRIAS ), External Senior Fellow 2010–2013.

His main research interests are German literature in the 9th – 11th centuries. Century, German literature in the 12th / 13th centuries Century - courtly literature, German literature of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, Latin and vernacular in the German Middle Ages: glossing practice in the 8th – 12th centuries Century - Translation in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Era - Multilingualism in the literary, comparative and educational history context, reception of antiquities in the German Middle Ages and in the early modern period, transmission and text history of medieval literature - book and library history, image and text and Middle Latin literature.

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on the Physiologus in the Middle Ages . Tübingen 1976, ISBN 3-484-15034-3 .
• German translations of Latin school texts. Their distribution and function in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. With a list of the texts . Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7608-3390-X .
• as editor with Nigel F. Palmer : Latin and vernacular in the German Middle Ages, 1100–1500. Regensburg Colloquium 1988 . Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-484-64011-1 .
• Reading in pictures and text. The former Berlin illuminated manuscript by Priest Wernher's "Maria" . Berlin 2014, ISBN 3-11-033502-6 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Henkel