The Budapest Dialogical School was a community of thinkers, poets, artists and scientists based in Budapest, Hungary which operated during the middle of the twentieth century. The school was led by

Lajos Szabó Lajos Szabó (1 July 1902 in Budapest – 21 October 1967 in Düsseldorf) was a Hungarian philosopher and one of the founders of the ''Budapest Dialogical School''. Early life Lajos Szabó was born in Budapest on 1 July 1902. In 1919 he was ...

and Béla Tábor with input from

Béla Hamvas Béla Hamvas (23 March 1897 – 7 November 1968) was a Hungarian writer, philosopher, and social critic. He was the first thinker to introduce the Traditionalist School of René Guénon to Hungary. Biography Béla Hamvas was born on 23 Marc ...

. It also attracted

Attila Kotanyi Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Bulgars, among others, in Central and ...

. Holocaust survivors played a significant role in the school: Szabo himself had survived

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

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