Prof. Dr. Matthias M. Tischler MAE

Prof. Dr. Matthias M. Tischler MAE(ICREA/UAB, Barcelona/Bellaterra)

(PhD Heidelberg 1998; habilitation Dresden 2008) studied medieval and modern history, auxiliary sciences, classical and medieval Latin and Romance languages at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich (1989-95) and Islam at the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology in Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am Main (2003-08). He has been an ICREA Senior research professor in Barcelona since 2017. In the academic year 2014/15 he was Visiting Director of Studies at the EÉcole Pratique des Hautes EÉtudes in Paris, in spring 2016 he was Visiting Scholar at the Medieval Institute of Notre Dame University, USA, and in spring 2019 he was Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. In January 2020, he was a senior fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1 September 2020 (member no 5397).

M. M. Tischler has published widely on the transcultural history of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and their identity formation in the Euro-Mediterranean Middle Ages, focusing on the transfer of knowledge, religious discussions, and the function and use of religious texts in the historiography and polemical and apologetic literary production of Latin Christians. All his work is based on the in-depth codicological and palaeographical study of manuscripts and contributes to the creation of a transcultural palaeography of the Middle Ages. From 2015 to 2019, he co-directed, with Walter Pohl, the FWF project "Bible and Historiography in Transcultural Iberian Societies, 8th to 12th Centuries" at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. From 2016 to 2019, he directed the project "From Carolingian Periphery to European Central Region: The Written Genesis of Catalonia" at the Institute of Medieval Studies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona as part of the HERA project "After Empire: Using and Not Using the Past in the Crisis of the Carolingian World, c. 900-c.1050 (UNUP)". Since 2020, he and Walter Pohl have been leading the bilateral project "Carolingian Culture in Septimania and Catalonia: The Transformation of a Multi-Ethnic Middle Ground of the Euro-Mediterranean World".

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