Nigel F Palmer

Nigel Fenton Palmer FBA (* 28 October 1946 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is a British Germanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

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 (1975) was on the German and Dutch versions of the Visio Tnugdali. He was made a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1976 and Professor for Medieval German Literature and Language in 1992 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford as successor of Peter Ganz.

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