He was born in Hungary to János Bobula, Senior (1844-1903), a Budapest architect and politician, and he studied at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, along with his brother, János Junior. (1871-1922), who also became an architect.
Titus de Bobula emigrated to the United States around 1897, living and working at times in New York City and Marietta, Ohio. In 1903, he arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he designed buildings for the next eight years. The church"s twin towers, which rise 125 feet, are composed of white brick in a Greek cruciform pattern set into sandstone.
He returned to Hungary in the early 1920s and turned to political activism.
On November 10, 1923, the front page of the New York Times read: “Titus De Bobula Jailed in Budapest: Husband of Mistress C. M. Schwab’s Niece Arrested for Plot to Overthrow (Hungarian) Government.”
He was back in the United States. by the 1930s, and in the words of Nikola Tesla biographer Marc Seifer, he “was hired to design the tower, power plant, and housing for the inventor’s ‘impenetrable shield between nations’” – a futuristic electronic weapons system.
De Bobula moved to Washington, District of Columbia, in the 1930s. A Washington Post obituary from 1961 described him as a retired consulting architect best known for designing churches in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
