Marc ferro biography

PHOTO: French historian and author Marc Ferro (1924-2021)

Marc Ferro was born on 24th December 1924 in Paris. In 1941, he lived with his mother Oudia Firdmann and stepfather. Ferro was 5 years old when his father died. His mother was a designer at Worth, the first haute couture house in the French capital.

Ferro was a student at the Lycée Carnot. During the German occupation of Paris, he was the victim of the new Vichy regime’s rabid anti-Semitic policies, due to the Jewish origin of his mother. His philosophy professor, Maurice Merleau-Ponty recommended that Ferro and his classmates flee the occupied zone as soon as possible. Ferro took refuge in Grenoble as it was located in an unoccupied zone. His mother was deported and died on 28th June 1943 at Auschwitz.

Between 1948 and 1956, Ferro taught at the Lycée Lamoricière in Oran, in French-occupied Algeria. He was then appointed professor in Paris, at a number of higher learning schools. He later served as Director of studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. At the beginning of the 1960s Ferro specializ

Marc Ferro

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1924 - 2021

Marc Ferro

Marc Ferro (French pronunciation: [maʁk fɛʁo]; 24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Ferro has received more than 79,311 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Marc Ferro is the 238th most popular historian (down from 232nd in 2019), the 3,185th most popular biography from France (down from 3,063rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Historian.

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Among historians, Marc Ferro ranks 238 out of 561. Before him are Gerald of Wales, Maxime Rodinson, Alexander Kazhdan, Johannes Aventinus, Timothy Garton Ash, and Gustave Lanson. After him are Gustave Schlumberger, Lucius Coelius Antipater, Elishe, Saul Friedländer, Krste Misirkov, and Gerardus Vossius.

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Marc Ferro

French historian (1924–2021)

Marc Ferro

Born(1924-12-24)24 December 1924

Paris, France

Died21 April 2021(2021-04-21) (aged 96)

Maisons-Laffitte, France

NationalityFrench
OccupationHistorian

Marc Ferro (French pronunciation:[maʁkfɛʁo]; 24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian.

Life and career

Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema.

His Ukrainian-Jewish mother was murdered during the Holocaust.[1]

He was Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He was a co-director of the French review Annales and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.

He also directed and presented television documentaries on the rise of the Nazis, Lenin and the Russian revolution and on the representation of history in cinema.[2]

Ferro died from COVID-19 complications in Maisons-Laffitte in April 2021, at the age of 96.[3]

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