Marc Eric
Mitzscherling

Our approach to cultural assets is currently undergoing radical change. New technologies are enabling alternative ways of accessing and tools for handling collection objects or archive material. It is precisely this zone of interference between analogue and digital that is one of Marc Eric Mitzscherling's main areas of interest. He first made his mark in 2013 with the founding and development of the archive Handschriftenarchiv Dresdner Kreuzchor. He later studied linguistics, cultural studies and history at the universities of Greifswald and Helsinki, specialising in collection research with a master's programme in Collections-Based History of Knowledge and Culture at the University of Erfurt and the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt. Since 2023, he has been completing his archival science training in the curriculum of Historical Auxiliary Sciences and Archival Science at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. His research and work focus on Finnish and Estonian linguistics, Liechtenstein – family and principality –, 18th-century cultural history, and digital collection work with a strong emphasis on the profitable digital transformation of analogue data and the networking of knowledge, for example with the help of FactGrid. Marc Eric Mitzscherling currently works at the Saxon State Library, State and University Library Dresden, teaches Finnish for Skandia Lingua, and is regularly involved in various digitisation, indexing, and development projects.