 He went to the Ferenc Rákóczi High School between 1947–1951 then studied archaeology at Eötvös Loránd University where he received a degree in 1956.He spent the next three years working at the Egyptology department of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts.In 1960 he started teaching at the Egyptology department of Eötvös University, and from 1972 he was the senior lecturer at the department.