15 Facts About Marcel Fodor

Marcel Fodor's father, Janos Fodor, was a Danube Swabian whose family name "Fischer" had been translated into the Hungarian language as "Fodor" during the Magyarization movement of the late 1800s.

Marcel Fodor's mother, Berta Auspitz, was a member of a wealthy family of bankers and industrialists in Central Europe.

Marcel Fodor's family had Jewish roots and was described as assimilated.

Marcel Fodor studied in Budapest and Charlottenburg, receiving a degree in chemical engineering in 1911.

An engineer, fluent in five languages, [Marcel Fodor] had been grumbling along as manager of a steel mill in the English Midlands.

In 1922, Marcel Fodor married Marie Martha Roob, born in Miskolc, Hungary.

Best and Marcel Fodor presided at the Stammtisch, where journalists and regular visitors discussed the days news and exchanged information.

The correspondents would sit around there in the Cafe Louvre, 10 and 11 o'clock at night and old Marcel Fodor would tell them what had happened that day.

Marcel Fodor arranged press credentials for Fulbright, and both interviewed diplomats and government leaders across the region.

When he and John Gunther met in 1930, they developed the same kind of student-teacher relationship the Marcel Fodor had engaged in with Thompson and Fulbright.

From 1940 to 1944, Marcel Fodor lived in the United States, working as a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and as a columnist with the Chicago Sun.

Marcel Fodor was active on the lecture circuit, giving speeches across the United States during World War II.

From 1948 to 1957, Marcel Fodor regularly corresponded with Fulbright, now US Senator from Arkansas.

Marcel Fodor sent Fulbright dozens of memos with summaries and his views of the situation in Europe and the Soviet Union.

Mr Marcel Fodor, born in Hungary, could speak Hungarian, English, German, French, and Italian fluently.