1. Tivadar Soros was a Hungarian lawyer, author and editor.
12 Facts About Tivadar Soros
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Tivadar Soros is best known for being the father of billionaire George Soros, and engineer Paul Soros.
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Tivadar Soros was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Nyirbakta, Hungary, near the border with Ukraine.
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Tivadar Soros's father had a general store and sold farm equipment.
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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.
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Tivadar Soros first met his wife Erzsebet when she was eleven years old during a visit to the home of her father Mor Szucs, a cousin of his own father.
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Tivadar Soros studied law at the Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvar, in what was then Hungarian Transylvania.
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Tivadar Soros fought in World War I and spent years in a prison camp in Siberia before escaping.
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Tivadar Soros founded the Esperanto literary magazine Literatura Mondo in 1922, having learned the language from a fellow soldier during the war, and edited it until 1924.
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In 1936, Tivadar Soros changed the family's surname from the German-Jewish "Schwartz" to "Tivadar Soros", in an attempt to protect the family from Hungary's increasing antisemitism.
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Tivadar Soros was said to like the new name because it is a palindrome and because of its meaning; in Hungarian, soros means "next"; in Esperanto it means "will soar".
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Tivadar Soros forged paperwork, giving the family's new alias, as the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944.