Henrike Lähnemann

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Henrike Lähnemann in 2013

Henrike Lähnemann (born 1968 in Münster) is a German medievalist who currently works at Newcastle University.

Career

Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian Johannes Lähnemann, and the granddaughter of the German medievalist Eleonore Dörner (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[1] at the University of Oxford and a semester as Visiting Professor at the Universität Zürich. Since 2006, she has held the Chair of German Studies at Newcastle University, and she is also Head of the German Section in Newcastle's School of Modern Languages.

Lähnemann's current research focuses on devotional writing from northern Germany, especially the manuscripts of the convent of Medingen. In 2010, the German Research Foundation nominated her for AcademiaNet,[2] the database of profiles of leading women scientists;[3][4] she also chairs Women in German Studies.

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