Alexander Fidora (Offenbach am Main, 1975), is a Catalan Professor of German origin. He is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy and Medieval studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
He obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 at the Department of PhilosophyatFrankfurt University with a thesis on Dominicus Gundissalinus and 12th century epistemology. During the period 2003–2006, he directed in Frankfurt, together with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, a research project on the history of philosophy during the 12th–14th centuries at the Collaborative Research Center from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) “Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel”.[1]
Until 2006, Alexander Fidora taught in the Philosophy Departament at Frankfurt University. In 2006, he became Research Professor at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA-Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies) in the Departament of Ancient and Medieval Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He has been visiting professor at the University of Saint Louis (2004 and 2007), the Panamerican University/México D.F (2008) and the University of Frankfurt (2023).[2]
Alexander Fidora's research deals with the intercultural and interreligious dimension of medieval thought. He focuses on the influence of Arab philosophy on medieval epistemology, the translation of the Talmud into Latin and its influence, as well as the works of Medieval Catalan authors such as Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Ramon Llull[3]orFrancesc Eiximenis. Among others, he has directed two research projects of the European Research Council (ERC) “Latin Philosophy into Hebrew” (2008–2012) and “The Latin Talmud” (2014–2019).[4]
Fidora has been a fellow in the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg “Fate and Prognostication” at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2012 and 2014) and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2013). He has been president of the Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval (SOFIME-Society of Medieval Philosophy, 2011–2016)[5] and vice-president of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM-International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy, 2017–2022).
He is (co)editor of several book series, such as “Bibliotheca Philosophorum Medii Aevi Cataloniae” (Obrador Edèndum), “Herders Bibliothek der Philosophie des Mittelalters” (Herder) o “Katalanische Literatur des Mittelalters” (Lit/Barcino).[6]
Since 2017, he is a member of the Academia Europaea.[7]
For his researches on medieval thought, Fidora has received the following awards: