Henrike Lähnemann

Henrike Lähnemann (born 1968 in Münster) is a German medievalist and holds the Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian , and the granddaughter of the German medievalist (née Benary) and the archeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner; she grew up in Lüneburg and Nuremberg, Germany. She studied German literature, History of Art and Theology at the Universität Bamberg, the University of Edinburgh, Freie Universität Berlin and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. After a PhD at the Universität Bamberg on late medieval didactic literature, Lähnemann worked at the Universität Tübingen, where she gained her Venia legendi in German Philology with a study of the Book of Judith in German medieval literature. She spent a year as a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a semester as Visiting Professor at the Universität Zürich. Between 2006 and 2014 she held the Chair of German Studies at Newcastle University, and was also Head of the German Section in Newcastle's School of Modern Languages. Since 2015 she holds the Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.