George Nemeth (April 10, 1933 – October 2, 2009) was a Hungarian Canadian psychologist,

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trend poet, and writer.

Biography

Nemeth was born in 1933, and grew up under

Mátyás Rákosi Mátyás Rákosi (; born Mátyás Rosenfeld; 9 March 1892
– 5 February 1971) was a Hungarian communis ...

's socialist regime. After the

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, Nemeth fled

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, and settled in

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. In 1957, Nemeth got his PhD in psychology from

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and taught psychology at Concordia University. Nemeth began his poetic career in the 1960s. In 1981, he co-founded the Arkánum Magazine, which he also co-edited with Sándor András, Jószef Bakucz, and László Kemenes Géfin. He died in 2009 in

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References

1933 births 2009 deaths Canadian psychologists Academic staff of Concordia University Hungarian emigrants to Canada McGill University Faculty of Science alumni Writers from Budapest 20th-century psychologists {{Hungary-writer-stub