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'''Alexander Fidora Riera''' ([[Offenbach]], [[1975]]), is a [[Catalan]] Professor of [[German]] origin. He is researcher in [[ICREA]] about [[Philosophy]] and [[Middle Age|Medieval]] studies in the [[Autonomous University of Barcelona]] (UAB).
== Education ==
He "*****" his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph. D.]] degree in 2003 in the [[Philosophy]] Department of the [[University of Frankfurt]] with a research about [[Dominicus Gundissalinus]] and [[epistemology]] in the [[12th century]]. During the period 2003-2006, he supervised in [[Frankfurt]], together with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, a project about philosophy from the centuries XIII and XIV in the Collaborative Research Center from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) “Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel”.<ref>[https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5448177?context=projekt&task=showDetail&id=5448177& Information about this project on the website of the ''Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft'']. {{in lang|de}}</ref>
== Teaching ==
Until 2006, Alexander Fidora has taught in the Philosophy Departament of the University of Frankfurt. In 2006, Alexander Fidora became research Professor in the ''Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats'' ([[ICREA]]-Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies) in the Departament of Antiquity and Medieval Sciences of the [[Autonomous University of Barcelona]] (UAB). He has been guest teacher in the [[University of Saint Louis]] (2004 and 2007), the [[Panamerican University]]/México D.F (2008) and the [[University of Frankfurt]] (2023).<ref>[https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/tense-struggles-for-the-best-arguments/ News about Alexander Fidora's teaching activity in the University of Frankfurt during the school year 2022-2023].</ref>
== Research ==
Alexander Fidora's researches deal with the intercultural and interreligious dimension of medieval thought. His research works deal with the influence of [[Arab]] [[philosophy]] in medieval [[epistemology]], the [[Talmud]]'s [[translation]] into Latin and it influence, the works of Medieval Catalan such as [[Arnau de Vilanova]], [[Ramon Llull]]<ref>[https://www.llull.cat/catala/recursos/tralicat_traductors_res.cfm?id=34925 Alexander Fidora as Ramon Llull's translator into German on the Ramon Llull Institute website]. {{in lang|ca}}</ref> or [[Francesc Eiximenis]].
Among others, he has been director of research projects of the European Research Council (ERC) “Latin Philosophy into Hebrew” (2008-2012) and “The Latin Talmud” (2014-2019).<ref>[https://webs.uab.cat/lattal/ Explanation of the ''Latin Talmud'' project in UAB website].</ref>
Moreover he has been guest researcher in the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg “Fate and Prognostication” in 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)<ref>[https://sofime.eu/junta-directiva/ Members of the Board of Directors of SOFIME]. {{in lang|es}}</ref> 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)publisher of several collections, such as “Bibliotheca Philosophorum Medii Aevi Cataloniae” (Obrador Edèndum), “Herders Bibliothek der Philosophie des Mittelalters” (Herder) o “Katalanische Literatur des Mittelalters” (Lit/Barcino).<ref>[https://obradoredendum.cat/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/OE_BPhMAC_Consell_Editor.pdf Editorial Board of the ''Bibliotheca Philosophorum Medii Aevi Cataloniae'']. {{in lang|ca}}</ref>
Since 2017, he is member of the Academia Europaea<ref>[https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Fidora_Alexander Alexander Fidora's section on the Academia Europaea website].</ref>.
== Awards ==
For his researches about [[Middle Ages|medieval] thought, Fidora has received the following awards:
* ''Catalonia Internacional Prize'' ([[Barcelona]], 2011).<ref>[https://www.ccma.cat/3cat/alexander-fidora/audio/532397/ Interview in TV3 (Catalan TV) after receiving this award. {{in lang|ca}}]</ref>
* ''Samuel Toledano Prize'' ([[Jerusalem]], 2012).<ref>[https://embassies.gov.il/madrid/New...-de-la-UAB-con-el-Premio-Samuel-Toledano.aspx News about that on the Israel Ambassy in Spain website]. {{in lang|es}} </ref>
* ''Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize'' ([[Bonn]], 2022).<ref>News about that on the [https://www.uab.cat/web/detall-de-n...ra-1345697212743.html?noticiaid=1345874389105 UAB website] {{in lang|ca}}</ref><ref>[https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/tense-struggles-for-the-best-arguments/ News about that on the University of Frankfurt website].</ref>
== Publications (selection) ==
* ''Raimundus Lullus: Ars brevis (lateinisch-deutsch)'', edition and translation into German by A. Fidora, Hamburg: Felix Meiner (Philosophische Bibliothek 518), 1999. {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|de}}
* ''Die Wissenschaftstheorie des Dominicus Gundissalinus – Voraussetzungen und Konsequenzen des zweiten Anfangs der aristotelischen Philosophie im 12. Jahrhundert'', Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003. {{in lang|de}}
* A. Akasoy & A. Fidora (eds.), ''The Arabic Version of the ‘Nicomachean Ethics’'', with an Introduction and Annotated Translation by Douglas M. Dunlop, Leiden/Boston: Brill (ASL 17), 2005. {{in lang|en}}
* A Fidora & J. E. Rubio (eds.), ''Raimundus Lullus. An Introduction to his Life, Works and Thought'', Turnhout: Brepols (CCCM 214, SL II), 2008. {{in lang|en}}
* Vicent Ferrer, ''De unitate universalis – Ma’amar nikhbad ba-kolel'', edition and translation into Catalan and English by A. Fidora & M. Zonta, Santa Coloma de Queralt/Barcelona: Obrador Edèndum/UAB/URV (BPhMAC 1), 2010. {{in lang|he}} {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|ca}} {{in lang|en}}
* A. Fidora, H. Hames & Y. Schwartz (eds.), ''Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts in Contexts'', Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013. {{in lang|en}}
* Guiu Terrena, ''Confutatio errorum quorundam magistrorum'', edition and translation into Catalan and English by A. Fidora, A. Blasco & C. López Alcalde, Santa Coloma de Queralt/Barcelona: IEC/Obrador Edèndum/UAB/URV (BPhMAC 3), 2014. {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|ca}} {{in lang|en}}
* Arnau de Vilanova: ''Über den Antichrist und die Reform der Christenheit'', translation into German by A. Fidora, Barcelona/Münster i. W.: Barcino/Lit, 2015. {{in lang|de}}
* [https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/llibres/2017/183594/OE_ExSch8_PugioFidei_Final.pdf G. Hasselhoff & A. Fidora (eds.), ''Ramon Martí’s Pugio fidei: Studies and Texts'', Santa Coloma de Queralt: Obrador Edèndum, 2017.] {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|en}}
* [https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/llibres/2019/215917/taldisdurhigmidage_a2019c.pdf A. Fidora & Hasselhoff (eds.), ''The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages'', Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB, 2019.] {{in lang|en}}
* A. Fidora, ''Albertus Magnus und der Talmud (Lectio Albertina 20)'', Münster i. W.: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. {{in lang|de}}
* ''Extractiones de Talmud per ordinem thematicum'', ed. U. Cecini, Ó. de la Cruz, A. Fidora & I. Lampurlanés (CCCM 291A), Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|en}}<ref>[https://yerun.eu/2019/04/research-at-uab-uab-researchers-publish-first-edition-of-the-latin-talmud/ News about its publication on the UAB website]. {{in lang|en}}</ref>
* Francesc Eiximenis: ''Die Regierung des Gemeinwesens'' (katalanisch-deutsch), edition and translation into German by A. Fidora , Freiburg i. Br.: Herder (HBPhMA 60), 2024. {{in lang|ca}} {{in lang|de}}
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/alexander-martin-fidora-riera-3 Alexander Fidora's section on the UAB website]. {{in lang|ca}}
* [https://www.icrea.cat/en/Web/ScientificStaff/Alexander-Fidora-Riera-373 Alexander Fidora's section on the ICREA website] {{in lang|en}}
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'''Alexander Fidora Riera''' ([[Offenbach]], [[1975]]), is a [[Catalan]] Professor of [[German]] origin. He is researcher in [[ICREA]] about [[Philosophy]] and [[Middle Age|Medieval]] studies in the [[Autonomous University of Barcelona]] (UAB).
== Education ==
He "*****" his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph. D.]] degree in 2003 in the [[Philosophy]] Department of the [[University of Frankfurt]] with a research about [[Dominicus Gundissalinus]] and [[epistemology]] in the [[12th century]]. During the period 2003-2006, he supervised in [[Frankfurt]], together with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, a project about philosophy from the centuries XIII and XIV in the Collaborative Research Center from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) “Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel”.<ref>[https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5448177?context=projekt&task=showDetail&id=5448177& Information about this project on the website of the ''Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft'']. {{in lang|de}}</ref>
== Teaching ==
Until 2006, Alexander Fidora has taught in the Philosophy Departament of the University of Frankfurt. In 2006, Alexander Fidora became research Professor in the ''Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats'' ([[ICREA]]-Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies) in the Departament of Antiquity and Medieval Sciences of the [[Autonomous University of Barcelona]] (UAB). He has been guest teacher in the [[University of Saint Louis]] (2004 and 2007), the [[Panamerican University]]/México D.F (2008) and the [[University of Frankfurt]] (2023).<ref>[https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/tense-struggles-for-the-best-arguments/ News about Alexander Fidora's teaching activity in the University of Frankfurt during the school year 2022-2023].</ref>
== Research ==
Alexander Fidora's researches deal with the intercultural and interreligious dimension of medieval thought. His research works deal with the influence of [[Arab]] [[philosophy]] in medieval [[epistemology]], the [[Talmud]]'s [[translation]] into Latin and it influence, the works of Medieval Catalan such as [[Arnau de Vilanova]], [[Ramon Llull]]<ref>[https://www.llull.cat/catala/recursos/tralicat_traductors_res.cfm?id=34925 Alexander Fidora as Ramon Llull's translator into German on the Ramon Llull Institute website]. {{in lang|ca}}</ref> or [[Francesc Eiximenis]].
Among others, he has been director of research projects of the European Research Council (ERC) “Latin Philosophy into Hebrew” (2008-2012) and “The Latin Talmud” (2014-2019).<ref>[https://webs.uab.cat/lattal/ Explanation of the ''Latin Talmud'' project in UAB website].</ref>
Moreover he has been guest researcher in the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg “Fate and Prognostication” in 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)<ref>[https://sofime.eu/junta-directiva/ Members of the Board of Directors of SOFIME]. {{in lang|es}}</ref> 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)publisher of several collections, such as “Bibliotheca Philosophorum Medii Aevi Cataloniae” (Obrador Edèndum), “Herders Bibliothek der Philosophie des Mittelalters” (Herder) o “Katalanische Literatur des Mittelalters” (Lit/Barcino).<ref>[https://obradoredendum.cat/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/OE_BPhMAC_Consell_Editor.pdf Editorial Board of the ''Bibliotheca Philosophorum Medii Aevi Cataloniae'']. {{in lang|ca}}</ref>
Since 2017, he is member of the Academia Europaea<ref>[https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Fidora_Alexander Alexander Fidora's section on the Academia Europaea website].</ref>.
== Awards ==
For his researches about [[Middle Ages|medieval] thought, Fidora has received the following awards:
* ''Catalonia Internacional Prize'' ([[Barcelona]], 2011).<ref>[https://www.ccma.cat/3cat/alexander-fidora/audio/532397/ Interview in TV3 (Catalan TV) after receiving this award. {{in lang|ca}}]</ref>
* ''Samuel Toledano Prize'' ([[Jerusalem]], 2012).<ref>[https://embassies.gov.il/madrid/New...-de-la-UAB-con-el-Premio-Samuel-Toledano.aspx News about that on the Israel Ambassy in Spain website]. {{in lang|es}} </ref>
* ''Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize'' ([[Bonn]], 2022).<ref>News about that on the [https://www.uab.cat/web/detall-de-n...ra-1345697212743.html?noticiaid=1345874389105 UAB website] {{in lang|ca}}</ref><ref>[https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/tense-struggles-for-the-best-arguments/ News about that on the University of Frankfurt website].</ref>
== Publications (selection) ==
* ''Raimundus Lullus: Ars brevis (lateinisch-deutsch)'', edition and translation into German by A. Fidora, Hamburg: Felix Meiner (Philosophische Bibliothek 518), 1999. {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|de}}
* ''Die Wissenschaftstheorie des Dominicus Gundissalinus – Voraussetzungen und Konsequenzen des zweiten Anfangs der aristotelischen Philosophie im 12. Jahrhundert'', Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003. {{in lang|de}}
* A. Akasoy & A. Fidora (eds.), ''The Arabic Version of the ‘Nicomachean Ethics’'', with an Introduction and Annotated Translation by Douglas M. Dunlop, Leiden/Boston: Brill (ASL 17), 2005. {{in lang|en}}
* A Fidora & J. E. Rubio (eds.), ''Raimundus Lullus. An Introduction to his Life, Works and Thought'', Turnhout: Brepols (CCCM 214, SL II), 2008. {{in lang|en}}
* Vicent Ferrer, ''De unitate universalis – Ma’amar nikhbad ba-kolel'', edition and translation into Catalan and English by A. Fidora & M. Zonta, Santa Coloma de Queralt/Barcelona: Obrador Edèndum/UAB/URV (BPhMAC 1), 2010. {{in lang|he}} {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|ca}} {{in lang|en}}
* A. Fidora, H. Hames & Y. Schwartz (eds.), ''Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts in Contexts'', Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013. {{in lang|en}}
* Guiu Terrena, ''Confutatio errorum quorundam magistrorum'', edition and translation into Catalan and English by A. Fidora, A. Blasco & C. López Alcalde, Santa Coloma de Queralt/Barcelona: IEC/Obrador Edèndum/UAB/URV (BPhMAC 3), 2014. {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|ca}} {{in lang|en}}
* Arnau de Vilanova: ''Über den Antichrist und die Reform der Christenheit'', translation into German by A. Fidora, Barcelona/Münster i. W.: Barcino/Lit, 2015. {{in lang|de}}
* [https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/llibres/2017/183594/OE_ExSch8_PugioFidei_Final.pdf G. Hasselhoff & A. Fidora (eds.), ''Ramon Martí’s Pugio fidei: Studies and Texts'', Santa Coloma de Queralt: Obrador Edèndum, 2017.] {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|en}}
* [https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/llibres/2019/215917/taldisdurhigmidage_a2019c.pdf A. Fidora & Hasselhoff (eds.), ''The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages'', Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB, 2019.] {{in lang|en}}
* A. Fidora, ''Albertus Magnus und der Talmud (Lectio Albertina 20)'', Münster i. W.: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. {{in lang|de}}
* ''Extractiones de Talmud per ordinem thematicum'', ed. U. Cecini, Ó. de la Cruz, A. Fidora & I. Lampurlanés (CCCM 291A), Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. {{in lang|la}} {{in lang|en}}<ref>[https://yerun.eu/2019/04/research-at-uab-uab-researchers-publish-first-edition-of-the-latin-talmud/ News about its publication on the UAB website]. {{in lang|en}}</ref>
* Francesc Eiximenis: ''Die Regierung des Gemeinwesens'' (katalanisch-deutsch), edition and translation into German by A. Fidora , Freiburg i. Br.: Herder (HBPhMA 60), 2024. {{in lang|ca}} {{in lang|de}}
== References ==
<references />
== External links ==
* [https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/alexander-martin-fidora-riera-3 Alexander Fidora's section on the UAB website]. {{in lang|ca}}
* [https://www.icrea.cat/en/Web/ScientificStaff/Alexander-Fidora-Riera-373 Alexander Fidora's section on the ICREA website] {{in lang|en}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fidora, Alexander}}
[[Category: 1975 births]]
[[Category: 20th-century Catalan people]]
[[Category: 21st-century Catalan people]]
[[Category: Germans]]
[[Category: Goethe University Frankfurt alumni]]
[[Category: Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Barcelona]]
[[Category: Scholars of medieval philosophy]]
[[Category: German medievalists]]
[[Category: Historians of the medieval Islamic world]]
[[Category: Historians of Jews and Judaism]]
[[Category: German epistemologists]]
[[Category: German philosophers of science]]
[[Category: 21st-century German translators]]
[[Category: Translators from Catalonia]]
[[Category: Translators from Catalan]]
[[Category: Latin–Catalan translators]]
[[Category: Latin–English translators]]
[[Category: Latin-German translators]]
[[Category: Translators of philosophy]]
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