Nigel F. Palmer


Nigel Fenton Palmer FBA is a British Germanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

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 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..
in the Taylorian Institute

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