Stretching the bounds of Forteanism—setting the stage for Dianetics—while obscuring much else.
Nandor Fodor was a Hungarian Fortean, ghost hunter, spiritualist, psychic investigator, and professional psychoanalyst. Also a journalist, author, and political agitator.
Fodor was born 13 May 1895 in Beregszasz, Hungary, one of eighteen children. I believe the family was Jewish, the father’s name Aron Friedlander and the mother’s Zali Goldstein; I don’t know why the surname was changed to Fodor. Two children were born after Nandor, but both died very young; seven other older siblings also died while children. The youngest surviving, Nandor was, by his own account, his father’s favorite. He got a law degree in 1917 and practiced law until 1921, missing out on World War I. If I am right about his heritage, his older brother was Lajos Fodor, also a lawyer.
Nandor Fodor was a Hungarian Fortean, ghost hunter, spiritualist, psychic investigator, and professional psychoanalyst. Also a journalist, author, and political agitator.
Fodor was born 13 May 1895 in Beregszasz, Hungary, one of eighteen children. I believe the family was Jewish, the father’s name Aron Friedlander and the mother’s Zali Goldstein; I don’t know why the surname was changed to Fodor. Two children were born after Nandor, but both died very young; seven other older siblings also died while children. The youngest surviving, Nandor was, by his own account, his father’s favorite. He got a law degree in 1917 and practiced law until 1921, missing out on World War I. If I am right about his heritage, his older brother was Lajos Fodor, also a lawyer.