Ervin Laszlo spent his childhood in Budapest, Hungary. He was a
celebrated child prodigy on the piano, with public appearances from
the age of nine. Receiving a Grand Prize at the international music
competition in Geneva, he was allowed to leave Hungary and begin an
international concert career, first in Europe and then in
America.
Laszlo received the Sorbonne’s highest degree, the Doctorat ès
Lettres et Sciences Humaines in 1970. Shifting to the life of
a scientist and humanist, he lectured at various U.S. Universities
including Yale and Princeton. Following his work on modeling the
future evolution of world order at Princeton, he was asked to
produce a report for the Club of Rome, of which he was a member. In
the late 70s and early 80s, Laszlo ran global projects at the
United Nations Institute for Training and Research at the request
of the Secretary-General. In the 1990s his research led him to the
discovery of the Akashic Field.
The author, co-author or editor of 101 books that have appeared
in a total of 23 languages, Ervin Laszlo has also written several
hundred papers and articles in scientific journals and popular
magazines. He is a member of numerous scientific bodies, including
the International Academy of Science, the World Academy of Arts and
Science, the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, and
the International Medici Academy. He was elected member of the
Hungarian Academy of Science in 2010.
Ervin Laszlo was awarded the state doctorate (the highest
Ph.D) from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris in 1970, and
received honorary Ph.D’s from the United States, Canada, Finland,
and Hungary. He was the recipient of the Peace Prize of Japan, the
Goi Award, in 2001, of the International Mandir of Peace Prize of
Assisi in 2005, and of the Luxembourg World Peace Prize in 2017. He
was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005. In
2019, Ervin Laszlo was cited as one of the "100 Most Spiritually
Influential Living People in the World" according
to Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine. In
2020 he was cited as 28th of the OOOM Magazine's Top 100: The
World's Most Inspiring People” list.
A native of Budapest and a U.S. citizen, he lives with Carita his
Finnish-born wife in Tuscany.
