Lyndal Roper
Lyndal Roper | |
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| Born | 28 May 1956 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Title | Regius Professor of History |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Work, marriage and sexuality: Women in Reformation Augsburg (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert W. Scribner |
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| Institutions | |
| Notable students | Laura Gowing |
Lyndal Anne Roper (born 28 May 1956 in Melbourne) is an Australian historian and academic. She works on German history of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and has written a biography of Martin Luther. Her research centres on gender and the Reformation, witchcraft, and visual culture. In 2011, she was appointed to the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman and first Australian to hold this position.