Matthias M. Tischler

Matthias Martin Tischler (born March 18, 1968, in Münchberg, Bavaria) is a German palaeographer, philologist and historian, stemming from a multinational and -confessional family with Austrian, Bohemian, French and Hungarian origins.

Tischler has published in various languages (Catalan, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish) on the dissemination and use of Ostrogothic, Visigothic and Carolingian biographical, historiographical, juridical and philosophical texts and their effects on religious, social and political identity building, on the role of the Jews’, Christians’ and Muslims’ sacred and polemical texts from comparative intra- and transcultural standpoints and on central aspects of the intellectual history of individual scholars and religious orders in the Early, High and Late Middle Ages.

Tischler's scholarly agenda revolves around developing codicological, palaeographical and philological studies within transcultural history, following methodologically his academic grandfather Bernhard Bischoff and his academic father Walter Berschin [de], the establishment of codicologically and philologically grounded Transcultural Medieval Studies on the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean World and beyond, and the development of a new master narrative that accommodates medieval collective religious and ethnic memories conflicting with each other, in order to historically anchoring Europe's religious, cultural, and political plurality in a global world order.

Tischler is just finishing a comprehensive monograph on the more or less unknown transfer of early scholastic learning from Northern France to the North-Eastern peripheries of the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th and 13th centuries.

From September 2016 to August 2019, he co-directed (together with Stefan Esders [de], Berlin, Simon MacLean, St. Andrews, Sarah Hamilton, Exeter, and Max Diesenberger, Vienna) the HERA-project "After Empire: Using and Not Using the Past in the Crisis of the Carolingian World, c.900‒c.1050" (UNUP).

Since December 2019, he is director of the four-years project "Preaching Christ from a Transcultural Standpoint" which is preparing the critical edition of the Homiliary of Luculentius, the oldest indigenous work of Carolingian text culture in early medieval Catalonia (ca.

From September 2020 to August 2024, he co-directed (together with Walter Pohl) the four-years FWF-Project "Carolingian Culture in Septimania and Catalonia: The Transformation of a Multi-Ethnic Middle Ground of the Euro-Mediterranean World".

Since 1992, Tischler has been invited for giving talks throughout Europe and North America, especially Austria (Vienna, Zwettl), Denmark (Odense), England (Exeter and Leeds), France (Auxerre, Bordeaux, Fanjeaux, Nice, Paris, Toulouse and Tours), Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Frankfurt/M., Hamburg, Heidelberg, Ingelheim, Leipzig, Mainz, Reichenau, Rostock, Seligenstadt, Tübingen, Weingarten and Wolfenbüttel), Greece (Rethymno), Italy (Rome, Spoleto and Vatican City), Portugal (Lisbon), Scotland (Edinburgh and St Andrews), Spain (Barcelona, Bellaterra, Córdoba, Girona, Lleida, Madrid, Murcia and Santiago de Compostela), Switzerland (Berne, Einsiedeln, Fribourg and Spiez), Canada (Montréal) and USA (Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo and Princeton).

In May 2023, Tischler together with Alexander Fidora acquired a special book collection on Islamic thought, Arabic philosophy, and Ramon Llull owned by the German Arabist Hans Daiber for the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).