Meet Edith and Alfred Csikszentmihalyi
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was born to Edith Csikszentmihalyi and Alfred Csikszentmihalyi. He had two older half-brothers. One of them was killed in the Siege of Budapest, and the other, Moricz, was sent to labor camps in Siberia by the Soviets.
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Shortly after the Second World War, his father moved the family to Rome after being named the Hungarian Ambassador to Italy.
Csikszentmihalyi’s father quit rather than choose to work for the dictatorship in 1949 when the Communists annexed Hungary.
In retaliation, the communist government deported his father and revoked the family’s Hungarian citizenship. His father opened a restaurant in Rome to make a living, and Csikszentmihalyi quit school to help support the family.
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