Tivadar Soros[1] (Esperanto: Teodoro Ŝvarc; born Theodor Schwartz; 7 April 1893 – 22 February 1968) was a Hungarian lawyer, author and editor.

When Tivadar was eight, his father moved the family to Nyiregyhaza, the regional center in north-eastern Hungary, providing a somewhat less isolated life experience.

[4] He studied law at the Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca), in what was then Hungarian Transylvania.

[4] Soros fought in World War I and spent years in a prison camp in Siberia before escaping.

[7][8][9] Soros forged paperwork, giving the family's new alias, as the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944.