Marc Ferro

Marc Ferro studied at Grenoble Alpes University, École pratique des hautes études and Lycée Carnot. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is late modern period, history and history of film. Employment is recorded with School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, École polytechnique and Annales. Positions recorded include director of studies. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University and Officer of the French Order of Academic Palms.

• Name — Marc Ferro • Born — 24 December 1924 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 21 April 2021 • Place of death — Maisons-Laffitte, France • Occupation — Historian

Marc Ferro was born in Paris to a Greek-Italian father and a Russian-born Jewish mother (née Firdmann (Oudia)), who died in Auschwitz in June 1943. Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema. 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. Ferro died from COVID-19 complications in Maisons-Laffitte in April 2021, at the age of 96.

Marc Ferro worked in late modern period, history and history of film. He was employed by School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, École polytechnique, Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales, National Center for Scientific Research and École pratique des hautes études. Recorded position is director of studies. He belonged to Academia Europaea.

• Knight of the Legion of Honour • Officier of the National Order of Merit • Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques • Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

• City of Paris History Film Prize (France, 1975) • Prize Clio (France, 1988) • Europe's Historical Prize (1994) • Peace Prize (France, 2007) • Prize Saint-Simon (France, 2011)

• Moscow State University • Bordeaux Montaigne University • University of Chile.