Tivadar Soros
Tivadar Soros | |
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 Soros circa 1930's | |
| Born | Theodor Schwartz 4 July 1893 Nyirbakda, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 22 Feb 1968 New York, United States |
| Citizenship | Hungary, United States |
| Known for | Father of billionaire philanthropist George Soros |
| Spouse | Erzebet Scucze |
| Children | Paul Soros, George Soros |
Tivadar Soros[1] (Esperanto: Teodoro Ŝvarc; born Theodor Schwartz; 7 April 1893 – 22 February 1968) was a Hungarian lawyer, author and editor.[2] He is best known for being the father of billionaire George Soros, and engineer Paul Soros.
He was born into an Orthadox Jewish family in Nyirbakta, Hungary, near the border with Ukraine. His father had a general store and sold farm equipment. When Tividar was eight, his father moved the family to Nriregy-haza, the regional center in Northeastern, Hungary, providing a somewhat less isolated life experience.[3]
He first met his wife Erzebet when she was eleven years old during a visit to the home of her father Mor Scucz, a cousin of his own father.[3]
He studied law at the University at Cluj, in what was then Hungarian Transylvania.[3]
Soros fought in World War I and spent years in a prison camp in Siberia before escaping. He founded the Esperanto literary magazine Literatura Mondo (Literary World) in 1922 and edited it until 1924. He wrote the short novel Modernaj Robinzonoj (Modern Robinsons) (1923), republished in 1999 by Bero (an Esperanto publisher) afterwards translated into several languages and Maskerado ĉirkaŭ la morto (Masquerade (dance) around death), published 1965, an autobiographical novel about his experience during the Nazi occupation of Budapest, Hungary. Maskerado has been translated into English, French, Hungarian,[4] Italian, Russian, German and Turkish.
He died in New York in 1968.
References
- ^ The family changed its name in 1936 from Schwartz to Soros, in response to growing anti-semitism with the rise of Fascism.
- ^ Soros, Tivadar (2011). Masquerade: the incredible true story of how George Soros' father outsmarted the Gestapo. New York: Arcade Pub. ISBN 978-1-61145-024-8.
- ^ a b c Description of Tividar's early life in Kaufman, Michael T., (2002) Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, First Vintage Books Edition, Published by Random House, New York City, Tividar and Erzebet, Chapter 1, pgs. 3–14.
- ^ "SOROS : Álarcban (tartalom)". bibl.u-szeged.hu.
External links
- Review of Modern Robinsons
- Description of Maskerado book (broken link)
- Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire
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