Babits, Mary, 1906-1991
Biography
Mary (Hargita) Babits was born on February 28th, 1906, to parents George and Frances, in Budapest, Hungary. After earning a Doctor of Science degree in physics at the University of Technical Sciences in Budapest, she obtained a temporary position in 1931 at the Institute of Engineering Physics at the University of Technical Sciences where she met her future husband, Victor Babits. She later worked on the staff of the British Legation in Budapest until 1942. During the last two years of World War II, she worked as a Red Cross nurse, and also gave English lessons. Mary documented her and Victor Babit’s experience living in Budapest through WWII in her unpublished memoir The Siege of Budapest. After Victor’s death in 1982, Mary wrote The Life and Times of Dr. Victor A. Babits, an unpublished biography which detailed Victor’s life. Mary died in 1991.