The priest-poet was born in Szőce, but spent his childhood in Rábagyarmat. He graduated from high school in Szombathely, and attended the seminary of Veszprém and Pécs. He served in various parishes as chaplain in Transdanubia. In the first half of the 1930s he was a religion teacher in the schools of Pécs, then a parish priest in Újdombóvár. From 1938 he was a member of Szent István Academy. In 1950 he became canon. His first volume of poetry was published in Szombathely in 1909, entitled Rőzselángok (Twig Flames), then he published nine more books.