Marc Ferro
Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian. Author of several books, including The Use and Abuse of History.
Marc Ferro
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- Name
- Marc Ferro
- Born
- 24 December 1924
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 21 April 2021
- Place of death
- Maisons-Laffitte, France
- Occupation
- Historian
- Full name
- Marc Roger Ferro.
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- late modern period · history · history of film
- Education
- Grenoble Alpes University · École pratique des hautes études · Lycée Carnot
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres · honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University · Officer of the French Order of Academic Palms · Officer of the National Order of Merit · Saint-Simon Award
- Languages
- French
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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.
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• Name — Marc Ferro • Born — 24 December 1924 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 21 April 2021 • Place of death — Maisons-Laffitte, France • Occupation — Historian
Life and career
Life and career
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.
Career and activity
Career and activity
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.
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1924
Marc Ferro born at 8th arrondissement of Paris.
2021
Marc Ferro died at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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8th arrondissement of Paris.
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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Marc Ferro received Knight of the Legion of Honour, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University, Officer of the French Order of Academic Palms, Officer of the National Order of Merit and Saint-Simon Award.
Honours
Honours
• 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
Awards
Awards
• 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)
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Honorary degrees
• Moscow State University • Bordeaux Montaigne University • University of Chile.
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- 1.Arrêté du 23 avril 2013 portant apposition de la mention « Mort en déportation » sur les actes et jugements déclaratifs de décès, JORF No. 0162, 14 juillet 2013, p. 11826, texte 23, sur Légifrance: "Ferro, née Firdmann (Oudia) le 4 avril 1897 à Novogradvolinsk (Russie), décédée le 28 juin 1943 à Auschwitz (Pologne)."
- 2.French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France, John Wiley & Sons (2010), p. 240
- 3.Marc Ferro. IMDb.
- 4.Mort de l'historien Marc Ferro, spécialiste de l'histoire du XXe siècle, à 96 ans
- 5.Catinchi, Philippe-Jean. L'historien français Marc Ferro est mort. Le Monde. 22 April 2021.
- 6.translated by Nicole Stone. Routledge; 2nd edition, 2001,
- 7.reedited in 1986 by Payot,
- 8.paperback 2010 ( )
Bibliography printed in the source article · 28
- La Révolution de 1917, Paris, Aubier Éditions Montaigne, 1967 [English translation: The Russian revolution of February 1917, translated by J.L. Richards, notes and bibliography translated by Nicole Stone, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972]
- La Révolution de 1917 T.2: Octobre: Naissance D'une société, Paris, Aubier Éditions Montaigne, 1967 (reprinted in 1976, then in 1997 at Albin Michel) [English translation: October 1917: a social history of the Russian revolution , translated by Norman Stone, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980]
- La Grande Guerre, 1914-1918, Paris, Gallimard, 1968 (reprinted 1987) [English translation: The Great War, 1914-1918, 1972] translated by Nicole Stone. Routledge; 2nd edition, 2001,
- Cinéma et Histoire, Paris, Denoël, 1976 (réédité chez Gallimard en 1993) [English translation: Cinema and history, translated by Naomi Greene, 1988]
- L'Occident devant la révolution soviétique, Brussels, Complexe, 1980
- Suez, Brussels, Complexe, 1981
- Comment on raconte l'histoire aux enfants à travers le monde, Paris, Payot, 1981 [English translation: The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past Is Taught] reedited in 1986 by Payot,
- L'Histoire sous surveillance : science et conscience de l'histoire, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1985 (reedited in 1987 by Gallimard)
- Pétain, Paris, Fayard, 1987 (reedited in 1993 et 1994)
- Les Origines de la Perestroïka, Paris, Ramsay, 1990
- Nicolas II, Payot, Paris, 1991
- Questions sur la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, Paris, Casterman, 1993
- Histoire des colonisations, des conquêtes aux indépendances (XIIIe-XXe siècle), Paris, Le Seuil, 1994
- L'internationale, Paris, Editions Noêsis, 1996
- Que transmettre à nos enfants (with Philippe Jammet), Paris, Le Seuil, 2000
- Les Tabous de l'histoire, Paris, Nil, 2002
- Le Livre noir du colonialisme (director), Paris, Robert Laffont, 2003. paperback 2010 ( )
- Histoire de France, France Loisirs, 2002 ( )
- Le choc de l'Islam, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2003
- Le Cinéma, une vision de l'histoire, Paris, Le Chêne, 2003
- Les Tabous de L'Histoire, Pocket vol. 11949, NiL Éditions, Paris, 2004
- Les individus face aux crises du XXe siècle : L'Histoire anonyme, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2005
- Le ressentiment dans l' histoire. Odile Jacob, 2007. English (2010): Resentment in History, (paperback)
- Ils étaient sept hommes en guerre : Histoire parallèle, Robert Laffont, Paris, 2007.
- Autobiographie intellectuelle, Paris, Perrin, 2011
- La Vérité sur la tragédie des Romanov, Paris, Taillandier, 2012.
- Les Russes, l'esprit d'un peuple, Paris, Taillandier, 2017.
- L'Entrée dans la vie, Paris, Tallandier, 2020
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Formation and teaching. Ferro studied at Grenoble Alpes University, École pratique des hautes études and Lycée Carnot. The record notes the qualification doctorate. Recorded as historian, french resistance fighter, film director, university teacher and screenwriter.
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