Ekaterina Valeryevna Velmezova (russian: Екатери́на Вале́рьевна Вельме́зова, ''Ekaterina Valer'yevna Vel'mezova''; french: Ekaterina Velmezova; 3 February 1973) is a Russian and Swiss

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

, professor of Slavistics and of history and epistemology of language sciences in Eastern Europe at the

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...

, whose principal works concern Russian and Czech ethnolinguistics, as well as history and epistemology of language sciences in Central and Eastern Europe. Ekaterina Velmezova published the first ever corpus of Czech incantations (Вельмезова, 2004). Her monograph about

Nicholas Marr Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr (, ''Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr''; , ''Nikoloz Iak'obis dze Mari''; — 20 December 1934) was a Georgian-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking ...

(the largest book about Marr's linguistic doctrines) describes Marr's theories in the context of the language sciences of his era. Ekaterina Velmezova is the author of a new conception supposing analysis of linguistic theories through literary texts (Вельмезова 2014). Ekaterina Velmezova is a member of the board of directors of the Society of History and Epistemology of Language Sciences (french: Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage, Paris), official representative of Swiss Slavists at the International Committee of Slavists, a member of the board of directors of ''Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure'' (Geneva) and vice-president of the Centre for Linguistics and Language Sciences at the

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In 2000, Ekaterina Velmezova defended her first PhD thesis, dedicated to the Czech language and folklore, at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her second thesis, dedicated to the history of semantic ideas, was defended at the University of Lausanne in 2005 and earned an award from the Faculty of Arts. In 2007, she received the ''Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches'' degree from the University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail. Since 2015 Ekaterina Velmezova is full professor of Slavistics and of history and epistemology of language sciences in Eastern Europe at the

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