Hedwig Röckelein (born 13 July 1956) is professor of medieval history at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
From 1975 to 1981, she studied German, history, politics and prehistoric and early historical archeology at the Universities of Würzburg and Freiburg.
In 1985, she received her PhD at the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on high medieval Latin texts.
[citation needed] From 1985 to 1989 she created as part of the DFG program Erfassung der Handschriftenbestände in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland "capture the manuscript holdings in the Federal Republic of Germany" a catalog of Latin manuscripts at the library of the University of Tübingen.
[citation needed] Her research interests include women's and gender history of the Middle Ages, the media and communication in the Middle Ages and the Medieval vision literature.