The Search for Meaning amidst Adversity

László Dubravszky (1905–1999) Statistician, Astrologer, Anthroposophist, Esperantist

Abstract

This article is the first detailed study of the lives of two friends who met regularly over decades, the statistician László Dubravszky (1905–1999) and the Piarist monk István Előd (1912–1990), based on the estates of the two individuals. Dubravszky was known primarily as an anthroposophist, while István Előd published on psychology, but they had one common interest that brought them together: astrology. I describe in detail when and how Dubravszky became acquainted with astrology, which Hungarian astrologers he kept in touch with, which books by foreign authors he read, and how, during the decades of repression and neglect under socialism, he created the oeuvre that formed the basis for the most significant work of twentieth-century Hungarian astrology, A tradicionális asztrológia tankönyve (A Textbook of Traditional Astrology), published in 1992.