Lyndal Anne Roper is a historian. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. 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 Regius Chair of History (founded 1724) at the University of Oxford, the first woman (and first Australian) to hold this esteemed position.
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28 May 1956 (age 69) Melbourne, Australia
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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