Ingeborg Marshall was born in Deutsch-Eylau, East Germany, but fled with her family to West Germany at the end of the Second World War After teaching in Pennsylvania and New York, Marshall moved to Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1960s where she became fascinated by the Beothuk and began the academic work she would become renowned for Her research and writings about the Beothuk include The Beothuk of Newfoundland: A Vanished People, and A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk She is recipient of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2006