Matthias M. Tischler

Matthias M. Tischler is a Research Professor at ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) since 2017, affiliated with the Department of Ancient and Medieval Studies (IEM) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His career spans multiple European institutions including Technical University of Dresden, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and University of Notre Dame.

• PhD, Heidelberg (1998) under Walter Berschin
• Habilitation, Dresden (2009) under Gert Melville
• Academia Europaea member (2020)

Tischler's research focuses on transcultural medieval studies, particularly Carolingian cultural transmission, interreligious encounters, and manuscript-based historiography. He integrates philology, paleography, and codicology to analyze identity formation in post-Carolingian Europe.

His recent projects include critical editions of Einhart's Vita Karoli, Luculentius' Homiliary, and leadership in the FWF-project "Carolingian Culture in Septimania and Catalonia." He founded the Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies and co-edits multiple academic series.

• Research Fellow, Herzog August Bibliothek (2020)
• Senior Research Fellow, University of Notre Dame (2016)
• Herder Prize recipient
• DFG Center Fellow, Tübingen (2024/25)

Tischler supervises doctoral students and habilitations across Europe, maintains extensive international collaborations, and has contributed to major exhibitions and documentaries about Carolingian history. His methodology emphasizes manuscript analysis as key to understanding medieval intellectual networks.