Matthias Martin Tischler (born March 18, 1968, in Münchberg, Bavaria) is a German palaeographer, philologist and historian.
Tischler studied classical philology and medieval Latin, medieval and modern history, applied historical sciences and Romance philology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich (1989âÂÂ1995). After completing his PhD at Heidelberg in 1998, he became a post-graduate fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris (1998âÂÂ1999) and at the University of Bamberg (1999âÂÂ2001), and a scientific assistant, collaborator and lecturer at the Hugo von Sankt Viktor-Institut in Frankfurt and the Goethe University Frankfurt (2001âÂÂ2009). While in Frankfurt he studied philosophy and theology (2001âÂÂ2009) with , and Islam and Christian-Muslim Encounters (2003âÂÂ2005) with .
After his Dresden habilitation in 2009, he was an associate professor of medieval and transcultural history at the Dresden University of Technology until 2012. Since 2013 he has been a research professor of transcultural medieval history at the Institut d'Estudis Medievals (IEM) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). In the academic year 2014/2015 he was visiting professor at the ÃÂcole Pratique des Hautes ÃÂtudes in Paris. In the academic year 2015/2016 he was visiting fellow at the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. In 2016, he accepted the position of a Senior Research Professor of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona. In spring term 2019 he was a short-term visiting fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In January 2020 he was a senior research fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and in November 2024/February 2025 a senior research fellow at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" at the University of Tübingen. Since spring 2024 he has been a guest professor for research at the Dresden University of Technology. Since summer 2020 he has been an elected member of the Academia Europaea.
Tischler is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies (JTMS), published by de Gruyter (Berlin - Munich - Boston) since 2014, which has been transformed into the Series Transcultural Medieval Studies, published by Brepols (Turnhout) from 2019 onwards.
Tischler has also been a scientific consultant in the preparation of several historical exhibitions, such as "Kaiser Heinrich II.", Bamberg, July 9 â Oktober 20, 2002; "Canossa 1077. Erschütterung der Welt. Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur am Aufgang der Romanik", Paderborn, July 21 â November 5, 2006).
In September 2013, Tischler initiated the donation of the private library of the German philosopher (1921âÂÂ2013) to the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). In November 2019, he has initiated an official exchange of publications (journals, book series) between the Institut d'Estudis Medievals (IEM) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Forschungsstelle für vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG) of the University of Dresden. In May 2023, Tischler, with Alexander Fidora, acquired a special book collection on Islamic thought, Arabic philosophy, and Ramon Llull owned by the German Arabist for the Autonomous University of Barcelona.