Frédéric Marty's father was the mathematician Joseph Marty (1885–1914), who taught at the lycée d'Albi and as a French army officer was killed in action in WW I.
[3] Frédéric Marty received his doctorate in 1931 from the École normale supérieure (ENS).
He was a French Air Force lieutenant in WW II and was a victim of the Aero Flight 1631 shootdown when he was a diplomatic courier on board a Finnish plane that was shot down by the Soviet Air Force.
Frédéric Marty, who entered the ENS in 1928, wrote, between 1931 and 1937, several papers on the distribution of the values of a meromorphic function, algebraic functions, and coverings.
[9] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematics (ICM) 1936 in Oslo.