Franz Xaver Erhard studied Tibetan and German literature at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin as well as Tibet University, Lhasa. Franz Xaver Erhard worked at Humboldt Universität, University of Oxford and Universität Leipzig

The Selfless Ego I. Memory and Imagination in Tibetan Hagiographical Writing， Life Writing, 2020.

llustrious Ancestry, Marriage Alliances, Incarnation, and Family Cohesion. The Making of the Tibetan Noble House of Rdo ring,Lange, D., Ptáčková, J., Wettstein, M., and M. Wulf (eds.) 2021. Crossing Boundaries. Prague: Academia., 2021

Genealogy, Autobiography, Memoir: The Secular Life Narrative of Doring Tenzin Penjor,Life Writing, 2020.

The Representation of Power and Hegemony in Contemporary Fiction from Amdo. Tsering Döndrub’s Novel Fog, Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Power, 2019.

Media and Printing in Tibet since 1950. A Preliminary Survey of Tibetan Language Journals and Magazines, Modernizing the Tibetan Literary Tradition, edited by P. Gorkhovskiy. St Petersburg Univ. Press, 2018.