Socialist writer and Népszava journalist murdered with Béla Somogyi in 1920 for writing against the White Terror
Born in Kassa (Košice), he began as a journalist on the local Kassai Napló and published the novel A Sefcsik ház in 1918. In 1919 he joined Népszava, writing about proletarians, the peasants’ hunger for land and migration, and against the White Terror associated with the names of Iván Héjjas, Pál Prónay and Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek. For this the Ostenburg detachment abducted him and his editor Béla Somogyi on 17 February 1920 and shot them, throwing the bodies into the Danube.
Activities and affiliations
- 1919–1920 Ideology and propaganda
- 1918–1920 Literature and arts
Career Timeline
- 1918Novel A Sefcsik ház
- 1919Joins Népszava
- 1920Murdered by the Ostenburg detachment