He finished secondary school in Budapest and started working as a journalist. He travelled to Paris in 1888, where he spent three years. He was the reporter of Vasárnapi Újság and Egyetértés. He wrote the history of the Hungarian Society of Paris. After going back to Budapest in 1891, he wrote pocket-books and interviews. These publications made him well known. He worked for the Hungarian State Opera House for two and a half years.
