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Zsuzsa Ferge (1931–2024) was a Széchenyi Prize-winning sociologist and professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University. After obtaining her candidate's degree (1968) and doctorate (1982), she became a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2002.
Between 1953 and 1968, he worked at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), becoming head of the Stratification Research Department in 1960. Between 1968 and 1988, he was head of the Social Policy Department at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Sociology Research, where he was also a senior research fellow. Between 1988 and 1996, she was head of the Department of Social Policy at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy at Eötvös Loránd University, and from 1996 she was a university lecturer there, becoming professor emerita in 2001. When it was launched in 2000, she was a core member of the ELTE Doctoral School of Sociology and the founding program director of the doctoral program in social policy. In 2005, she was the lead expert at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' National Program Office for Combating Child Poverty. Her main areas of interest, research, and teaching were social structure, social inequalities, education, social and societal policy, poverty, and the social effects of transformation.
Zsuzsa Ferge passed away on April 9, 2024, at the age of 93. In her memory, a room was inaugurated on September 10, 2024, at the Faculty of Social Sciences: the Zsuzsa Ferge Faculty Council Room (Lágymányosi Campus North Building, Room 0.100C).
In March 2025, Zsuzsa Ferge's heirs donated her desk (dimensions: 180 x 78 x 75 cm), which is currently located in the room named after her.
Source: https://tatk.elte.hu/in_memoriam_Ferge_Zsuzsa
Written by Krisztina Egri