Draft:Ingrid Maier

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Ingrid Maier
Born	19.5.1951
Nationality	German
Known for	Vesti-Kuranty editions, research on early Russian translations and court theatre
Academic background
Alma mater	Uppsala University
Thesis	(1991)
Academic work
Discipline	Slavic studies, historical linguistics, Russian cultural history
Website	[1]

Ingrid Maier (born 1951) is a Swedish scholar of Slavic languages, Russian history and literature at Uppsala University (retired since 2018). She is a leading expert in 17th-century Russian linguistics, the early history of the Russian court theatre (17th c.), and cross-cultural exchanges. Her work brings unique insight into how Muscovite Russia interacted with and translated Western European news and texts, making her a key figure in understanding Russian literary and cultural history during the early modern period. Her research focuses on the history of the Russian language and culture, with an emphasis on translation practices, news media, and court theatre in 17th-century Muscovy.

Education and career

Maier earned her doctorate (PhD) in Slavic Languages at Uppsala University in 1991. She served as editor of the journal Slovo from 1989 to 1995 and was an editor of the Studia Slavica Upsaliensia series from 1993 to 2021. She has been contributing to the Russian Historical Dictionary (11th–17th centuries) since 1996, heading research on verbal government ("Verbalrektion") in 17th-c. Russian (1999–2002), and co-directing the *Vesti-Kuranty* publication project (1999–2017) that produced critical editions of 17th-century Russian translations of Western European news reports. In collaboration with Claudia R. Jensen, Maier has published detailed studies on the prehistory and history of the Russian court theatre under Tsar Alexis I (1672–1676), using a lot of new archival materials. Maier is particularly known for her studies on translations of West-European newspapers and pamphlets into Russian in the seventeenth century. She has also published on the translation of European books onto Russian, for instance horse-training manuals that were translated for Tsar Fedor (r. 1676–1682). Another important field of research is Russian syntax of the seventeenth century.

100+ publications

Selected bibliography

• Verbalrektion in den "Vesti-Kuranty" (1600–1660)** (Uppsala University, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, vol. 1: 1997; vol. 2: 2006)
• Vesti-Kuranty (Volumes for 1656–1670; 1671–1672); Moskva: Iazyki slavianskikh kul'tur, 2008–2009, 2017 with different co-editors)
• Pridvornyj teatr v Rossii v XVII veka (with Claudia Jensen, Moskva: Indrik, 2016) engl.: Court Theatre in Russia in the 17th Century
• Daniel C. Waugh, Ingrid Maier: Cross-Cultural Communication in Early Modern Russia: Foreign News in Context. Seattle und Uppsala: University of Washington Library, 2023, 893 S., 61 Illustrationen, DOI:10.6069/XCSQ-BF71.
• Maier, Ingrid, and Wouter Pilger. "Second Hand Translation for Tsar Aleksej Mixajlovich – a Glimpse into the 'Newspaper Workshop' at Posol'skij Prikaz." *Russian Linguistics* 25 (2001): 209–42
• "Orpheus and Pickleherring in the Kremlin: The 'Ballet' for the Tsar of February 1672." *Scando-Slavica* (2013)

• "Pickleherring Returns to the Kremlin: More New Sources on the Pre-History of the Russian Court Theatre." *Scando-Slavica* (2015)
• "A Unique Copy of *Alphabetum Russarum*, Printed in Stockholm by Peter van Selow" in *Scando-Slavica* (2023)
• "The Book of Horse Training by Antoine de Pluvinel in a Russian Translation of 1670," in: Translators in Russia on the Eve of Peter the Great, Moscow: Rudomino, 2019 (with Oleg Rusakovskiy)
• "Russia's Theatrical Past: Court Entertainment in the Seventeenth Century Seventeenth-Century" (with Claudia Jensen et al., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021)

External links

• https://old-rus-imli.ru/en/9-staff/223-ingrid-maier