A Hungarian Jesuit priest, missionary, university professor, and political scientist who spent most of his life in China, Taiwan, and the United States. He was a dedicated researcher and lecturer on Chinese missions, international relations, interfaith dialogue, and Holocaust remembrance. His life was directly touched by many defining events of 20th-century political and church history—World War II, the rise of communist China, the expulsion of missionaries, and the Cold War.

He was born on January 2, 1922, in Košice. On September 2, 1940, he entered the Society of Jesus in Budapest. After completing his novitiate, he began his studies in philosophy in Košice, which he continued in Budapest due to the events of the war and then completed in Brno in 1945. During World War II, he worked with the Jesuits in Košice to rescue persecuted Jews and was also in contact with the Czechoslovak resistance. He later stated that the multi-ethnic world of Košice and his personal experience of the Holocaust shaped his thinking and his commitment to religious tolerance for the rest of his life.

In 1947, he was sent on a mission to China. He continued his theological studies near Shanghai at the Jesuits’ famous Zikawei (Xujiahui) center, where he was ordained a priest in 1951. Shortly thereafter, following the Communist takeover, he became one of the victims of the persecution of foreign missionaries: he was interned for about nine months from 1952 to 1953 and then expelled from China.

Following his expulsion, he went to Taiwan, where he served as a missionary and pastor for nearly a decade and a half. According to the directory of the Hungarian Jesuit Order, he served in the Diocese of Hsinchu as a member of the Hsinchu Catholic Mission. During his ministry, he preached in Chinese and participated in the pastoral care of local Catholic communities.

In 1967, he moved to the United States, where, as a scholarship student at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., he earned a Ph.D. in international relations. In addition to his studies, he was involved in pastoral work at Georgetown University and at the Blessed Sacrament Parish in Washington, D.C. He subsequently joined the staff of the Chinese Institute in Washington, D.C., where he conducted research on Chinese society and politics.

In 1974, he became a professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut. In the Department of Communication, he taught international communication, negotiation techniques, and conflict resolution. His students regarded him as an outstanding lecturer and a highly erudite educator. In addition to his teaching, he regularly gave lectures on the history of the Chinese missions, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and issues of Christian–Jewish dialogue. He also drew on his own wartime and Chinese experiences as personal testimonies in his lectures.

He passed away on July 16, 1988, in Fairfield, Connecticut, at the age of 66, as a result of a heart attack.

Önálló könyve jelenleg nem ismert, ugyanakkor rendszeresen tartott tudományos és ismeretterjesztő előadásokat a kínai missziók, a nemzetközi kapcsolatok, a holokauszt, az antiszemitizmus és a vallásközi párbeszéd témakörében, valamint egyetemi oktatóként a tárgyalástechnika és a nemzetközi kommunikáció területén is jelentős oktatói tevékenységet fejtett ki.