Lyndal Roper
Lyndal Roper | |
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Roper in 2025 | |
| Born | 28 May 1956 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupations | Historian and academic |
| Title | Regius Professor of History |
| Children | 1 |
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| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Work, marriage and sexuality: Women in Reformation Augsburg (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert W. Scribner |
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| Notable students | Laura Gowing |
Lyndal Anne Roper (born 28 May 1956) 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 became the first woman and the first Australian to be appointed to the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford, a position she held until 2026.