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Marc Ferro, 96, French historian
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Lenona
Apr 22, 2021, 9:39:07 AM4/22/21
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ferro
(this includes a booklist and his awards)
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 died 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 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in April 2021 at the age of 96.[3]
And, I take it this is a translation. (There are several obits in French, elsewhere.)
https://aw-journal.com/death-of-historian-marc-ferro-specialist-in-20th-century-history-at-the-age-of-96/
DISAPPEARANCE – Former director of Annals, he had headed the Cinema and History research group at EHESS. He died overnight from Wednesday to Thursday.
Historian Marc Ferro, a great specialist in the USSR and Russia but also in the wars of the twentieth century, colonization and cinema, died on the night of Wednesday to Thursday at the age of 96, announced to AFP his family. Former figure of the Arte channel on which he had presented for 12 years Parallel story, program in which he put History within the reach of the general public, he had signed his 65th book last year, Entry into life, on the fate of great personalities.
Read also :“From century to century, resentment is one of the most surprising keys in history.”
In a text published by Le Figaro Magazine in 2007, Marc Ferro analyzed the springs of the presidential campaign opposing Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal and the way in which “Memory»Invited himself into the debates, to the point of catching off guard the political leaders so quick to recycle the figures of history without taking into account its lessons. “History is not predictable in all its faces, he wrote. But it is by deciphering man and his past that we can understand how the world works. Hence this paradox of a History which dominates man more than man dominates History, since the latter does not reflect it.»
(this includes a booklist and his awards)
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 died 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 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in April 2021 at the age of 96.[3]
And, I take it this is a translation. (There are several obits in French, elsewhere.)
https://aw-journal.com/death-of-historian-marc-ferro-specialist-in-20th-century-history-at-the-age-of-96/
DISAPPEARANCE – Former director of Annals, he had headed the Cinema and History research group at EHESS. He died overnight from Wednesday to Thursday.
Historian Marc Ferro, a great specialist in the USSR and Russia but also in the wars of the twentieth century, colonization and cinema, died on the night of Wednesday to Thursday at the age of 96, announced to AFP his family. Former figure of the Arte channel on which he had presented for 12 years Parallel story, program in which he put History within the reach of the general public, he had signed his 65th book last year, Entry into life, on the fate of great personalities.
Read also :“From century to century, resentment is one of the most surprising keys in history.”
In a text published by Le Figaro Magazine in 2007, Marc Ferro analyzed the springs of the presidential campaign opposing Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal and the way in which “Memory»Invited himself into the debates, to the point of catching off guard the political leaders so quick to recycle the figures of history without taking into account its lessons. “History is not predictable in all its faces, he wrote. But it is by deciphering man and his past that we can understand how the world works. Hence this paradox of a History which dominates man more than man dominates History, since the latter does not reflect it.»
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