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Henrike Lähnemann in 2012, taken during a public lecture at the convent of Mariensee

Henrike Lähnemann (born 1968 in Münster) is a German medievalist. The daughter of the theologian Johannes Lähnemann and granddaughter of the German medievalist Eleonore Dörner, née Benary and the archeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner grew up in Lüneburg and Nuremberg. She studied German literature, History of Art and Theology at the Universität Bamberg, University of Edinburgh, FU Berlin and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She did her PhD at the Universität Bamberg on late medieval didactic literature and then worked at the Universität Tübingen where she received her Venia legendi for German Philology with her study on the Book of Judith in German medieval literature. She spent a year as Feodor Lynen Fellowship for the University of Oxford and a semester as Visiting Professor at the Universität Zürich. Since 2006, she holds the Chair of German Studies at the Modern Language School of Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Her current research focuses on devotional writing from northern Germany, especially the manuscripts from the convent of Medingen . She was nominated for the German ‘Exzellenz-Portal’ Academia-Net[1]

Research Projects[edit]

  • The Late Medieval Devotional Manuscripts of Medingen Nunnery / Die Medinger Handschriften und die Entwicklung volkssprachiger Andachtsformen
  • Sword of Judith Project. Editing the Conference Proceedings of the "Sword of Judith"-Conference in the New York Public Library, April 2008
  • Cf. also the Electronic edition of the 'Renner' by Hugo von Trimberg / Elektronische Edition des 'Renner' Hugos von Trimberg
  • Die Überlieferung des 'Jüngeren Sigenot'

Publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ http://academia-net.de/alias/Aktuelles/Eine-spannende-Umbruchssituation/1063291 Henrike Lähnemann in discussion with AcademiaNet.

External Links[edit]

Personal Newcastle University Homepage
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School of Modern Languages on Facebook