Dr. Franz Fischer

Franz Fischer is coordinator and researcher at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne. He studied History, Latin and Italian in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre’s treatise on liturgy.

As a post-doctoral researcher he created a digital edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. He is serving on the Executive Board of Digital Medievalist and is editor-in-chief of the association’s open access journal. A founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) he is editor of SIDE, a series on digital editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE, a review journal on digital editions and resources.