Education
After that he attended the Franz Joseph University from 1928.
After that he attended the Franz Joseph University from 1928.
Born in Szabadka (now: Subotica, Serbia) to a Catholic petty bourgeois family. His psychology teacher was Hildebrand Dezső Várkonyi. They have three children: Mária (psychologist), Tamás (ceramist) and Zsuzsanna (district nurse).
Political career
He got into contact with the communist intellectuals (László Orbán, Gyula Kállai, Ferenc Hont) in the end of the 1930s. but Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky had the largest effect on him.
From 1942 he participated in the antifascist movements. In the next year he joined to the Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKGP).
He was Secretary-General of the National Council of The People"s Patriotic Front.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.