David Yeandle

Yeandle was born in Cambridge, England on 27 February 1955. He was Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow at King's College London^[1] and an Affiliated Lecturer in German at the University of Cambridge.^[2] He published widely on German language and literature, including Old High German, Middle High German, and the modern German language.^[1] After taking early retirement in 2010, he developed a research interest in ecclesiastical history, particularly of the Anglican Church.^[3] Yeandle died in Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire on 22 September 2025, at the age of 70.^[4][5]

• Commentary on the Soltane and Jeschute Episodes in Book III of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival (116,5–138,8) (Heidelberg: Winter, 1984) [also: David Nicholas Yeandle, "A Detailed, Critical Commentary on the Soltane and Jeschute Episodes in Book III of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival". (University of Cambridge: PhD Dissertation, 1982)] ISBN 3-533-03-577-8
• "The Ludwigslied: King, Church, and Context’", in: "mit regulu bithuungan": neue Arbeiten zur althochdeutschen Poesie und Sprache, edited by J.L. Flood and D.N. Yeandle (Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1989) ISBN 3-87452-737-9
• Frieden im "Neuen Deutschland". Das Vokabular des "Friedenskampfes": Eine linguistische Analyse und Dokumentation des Friedensvokabulars in der offiziellen Sprache der DDR vornehmlich der ausgehenden 80er Jahre (Heidelberg: Winter, 1991) ISBN 3-533-04-410-6
• A Victorian Curate: A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2021) ISBN 1-80064-154-0