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On November 22, 2013, Tamar Pataridze, a research scientist of ISU Center of Linguistic Research, was awarded the Alexander Böhlig Scientific Prize.

She deserved the award for her doctoral thesis titled "The Georgian versions of "Ascetical Homilies" by Isaac of Nineveh and their Semitic Substrate". Tamar Pataridze defended her thesis in 2012 at the University of Leuven (Belgium), under the supervision of Professor Andrea Schmidt.

Alexander Böhlig Scientific Prize is given once per 2 years to scientists whose doctoral theses are greatly appreciated by the special field commission. 

The awarding ceremony was held in the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

Since 2012, Tamar Pataridze is a research scientist of the Center of Linguistic Research. She coordinates two projects: 1. The Corpus of Georgian-European Sources; coordinates the group of translators dealing with the materials from the Vatican Archives. 2. The Old Georgian Translation Bases. It's planned to conduct the joint project with the University of Leuven.