Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (born 2 August 1959) is a German linguist.
From 1996 to 1998, he was a research fellow at the Australian National University.
Afterwards, he was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum (1999–2007) and at Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster (2007–2010).
In 2010, he was appointed Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Cologne.
[2] He is the co-editor of the book The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar (2005).