Tivadar Soros ( eo, Teodoro Ŝvarc; born Theodor Schwartz; 7 April 1893 – 22 February 1968) was a Hungarian lawyer, author and editor.
He is best known for being the father of billionaire
George Soros
George Soros ( name written in eastern order), (born György Schwartz, August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. , he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion, Note that this site is updated daily. having donated mo ...
, and engineer
Paul Soros
Paul Soros ( hu, Soros Pál; born Pál Schwartz; June 5, 1926 – June 15, 2013) was a Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist. Soros founded Soros Associates, which designs and develops bulk handling ...
.
He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in
Nyírbakta, Hungary, near the border with Ukraine. His father had a general store and sold farm equipment. When Tivadar was eight, his father moved the family to
Nyiregyhaza, the regional center in north-eastern Hungary, providing a somewhat less isolated life experience.
He first met his wife Erzebet when she was eleven years old during a visit to the home of her father Mor Szücs, a cousin of his own father.
[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.]
He studied law at the University at Cluj, in what was then Hungarian Transylvania.
Soros fought in
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
and spent years in a prison camp in
Siberia
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before escaping. He founded the
Esperanto
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literary magazine ''
Literatura Mondo
''Literatura Mondo'' (''Literary World'') was a literary Esperanto periodical and publishing house in Budapest, Hungary between 1922 and 1949. It became the focal point of the so-called Budapest School of Esperanto literature. It was founded by T ...
'' (''Literary World'') in 1922, having learned the language from a fellow soldier during the war 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
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occupation of
Budapest
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, Hungary. ''Maskerado'' has been translated into English, French,
Hungarian,
Italian, Polish, Czech, Russian, German and
Turkish
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*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
.
He died in New York in 1968.
References
External links
Review of ''Modern Robinsons''(broken link)
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''Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire''
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1893 births
1968 deaths
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century Hungarian lawyers
Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war in World War I
Hungarian editors
Hungarian Esperantists
Hungarian Jews
Hungarian writers
Lawyers from New York City
American magazine founders
Tivadar
Writers of Esperanto literature