Ingrid Maier

Ingrid Maier (born 19 April 1951) is a German-Swedish philologist, Slavist, and historian. She was employed at Uppsala University from 1991 until her retirement in 2018, first as a lecturer and from 2000 as a professor. Maier is renowned for her critical editions of seventeenth-century Russian news translations, collectively known as Vesti-Kuranty, and for her research on the origins of Russian court theatre.

Education and career Maier studied Russian, Polish, German philology and history in Heidelberg, Munich, Uppsala, Konstanz and Moscow. She received her doctorate in Slavic languages at Uppsala University in 1991 and became a full professor there in 2000.

In 2005–2010 Maier held a research professorship in Slavic studies at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Together with Claudia R. Jensen she has published abundantly on the subject of the first Russian court theatre (1672–1676), drawing on previously unknown archival materials. The co-authored monograph Pridvornyj teatr v Rossii XVII veka (2016) was reviewed by Eliza Małek in Slavia Orientalis. Maria S. Berlova described Russia's Theatrical Past as “an exceptional model” of international scholarly cooperation and noted its use of previously underexplored source materials. She also argued that the monograph contributes to a reassessment of Russia’s theatrical culture before Peter the Great’s reign. Maier’s 2008 edition of foreign originals for the Vesti-Kuranty was credited by Helmut Keipert with placing the study of these texts "on a completely new basis".

Selected publications Monographs Verbalrektion in den “Vesti-Kuranty” (1600-1660). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Part 1, 1997; Part 2, 2006. Vesti-Kuranty. 1656 g., 1660-1662 gg., 1664-1670 gg. Ch. 2: Inostrannye originaly k russkim tekstam. Moscow: Iazyki slavianskikh kul'tur, 2008. with Claudia Jensen: Pridvornyi teatr v Rossii XVII veka. Novye istochniki. Moscow: Indrik, 2016. with Claudia Jensen, Stepan Shamin, D. C. Waugh: Russia's Theatrical Past: Court Entertainment in the Seventeenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. with Daniel C. Waugh: Cross-Cultural Communication in Early Modern Russia: Foreign News in Context. Seattle: ResearchWorks of University of Washington Libraries, 2023, 893 pp. (Open Access).

Edited volumes with A. M. Moldovan: Vesti-Kuranty. 1656 g., 1660-1662 gg., 1664-1670 gg. Ch. 1: Russkie teksty. Moscow: Rukopisnye pamiatniki Drevnei Rusi, 2009. with V. B. Krys'ko: Vesti-Kuranty. 1671-1672. Moscow: Izdatel′skii tsentr "Azbukovnik", 2017.