Zsuzsa Ferge (25 April 1931 – 4 April 2024) was a Hungarian sociologist and statistician who is particularly known for her work on poverty reduction. She was a Professor Emerita in the Department of Policy, Economics, and Law at Eötvös Loránd University, where she helped to establish a department of social policy studies.[2] She was also the head of the Poverty Research Center there, as well as the Chief Researcher at the Working Unit on Hungary's National Program against Child Poverty, holding both of these positions after her retirement.[3]
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| Born | 25 April 1931 |
| Died | 4 April 2024 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
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Life and career edit
Ferge was a Professor Emerita in the Department of Policy, Economics, and Law at Eötvös Loránd University, where she became a full professor in 1988.[4] She was credited with establishing the social policy studies department there.[4] She retired to become a professor emerita in 2001, but after that she continued to head the university's Poverty Research Center.[3]
Methodologically, Ferge's academic work focused on statistical sociology. She focused on poverty in Hungary, and particularly on the collection and analysis of sociological data regarding child poverty.[4] She also engaged in extensive activism to reduce child poverty in Hungary,[4] and she specialised in the interaction of government policy and poverty.[5]
In 1998, Ferge was made a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[2] In 1993, she was elected to the Academia Europaea.[3]
In 2002, Ferge was awarded the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.[2] In 2007 she was the winner of the Hungarian Government's Imre Nagy Order of Merit (hu), and in 2009 she won the Government of Hungary's Twenty Years of the Republic Award (hu).[2] Ferge was a 2010 recipient of the European Citizens' Prize.[6] In 2011, Ferge won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hungarian Sociological Society.[2] She also held an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.[4]
Ferge died on 4 April 2024, at the age of 92.[7]
Selected awards edit
References edit
- ^ "Ferge Zsuzsa". opac-nevter.pim.hu. Petőfi Literary Museum. April 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Az MTA köztestületének tagjai" (in Hungarian). Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ a b c "Zsuzsa Ferge". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "Karl Pfeifer: An interview with Zsuzsa Ferge on poverty in Hungary". Hungarian Spectrum. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ Hu Lala (3 January 2013). "Tilos Rádió: rencontre avec la sociologue Zsuzsa Ferge" (in Hungarian). Tilos Rádió. Archived from the original on 15 June 2007. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Communication of the European Parliament concerning the European Citizens' Prize". The European Parliament. 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Elhunyt Ferge Zsuzsa" (in Hungarian). Portfolio. 5 April 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2024.