George Soros parents : Meet Elizabeth Soros and Tivadar Soros

George Soros is a renowned Hungarian born American businessman and philanthropist who is known to have donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations.

In this Article, we will be talking about George Soros Parents, Elizabeth Soros, Tivadar Soros as we try to know much about his family background.

Who is George Soros ?

George Soros was born on August 12, 1930 in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary into a non-observant Jewish family where he grew up until he was 17.He moved to the United Kingdom in 1947 and studied at the London School of Economics where he was awarded a BSc in philosophy in 1951, and then a Master of Science degree, also in philosophy, in 1954.

RELATED: Tamiko Bolton biography: Who is George Soros’ wife?

George Soros became known worldwide for some strange reason in 1992. He is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of pounds sterling, which made him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.

George Soros Parents 

George Soros was born to Elizabeth Soros, his mother, and Tivadar Soros, his father. His mother came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop while his father was a lawyer by profession. 

Trivadar Soros wasn’t only practising law, he is also known very well as an Esperanto-speaker who edited the Esperanto literary magazine Literatura Mondo and raised his son to speak the language.

George Soros parents got married in 1924 and in 1936, the family changed their name from the German-Jewish “Schwartz” to “Soros”, as protective camouflage in increasingly antisemitic Hungary.

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLTBmqqeZpOkunCzxKipoJ1dqLyzu9Jmp5qqlaPBtHnMnpytZZWhtrutwZ6roWWjpL%2Bwv4yapZ1lpJ7DorDAq2Ssp6KkwHA%3D