Our father, dr. Ágoston Takáts was born on October 14, 1921 in Ókér (in the territory of present-day Serbia). His father was Sándor Takáts, a cantor teacher, and his mother was Matild Krespay. His parents were the third of six children. As a result of the Trianon Convention, their families were displaced in 1922, adrifted in a wagon for weeks, and then settled in Jászapáti. There his father was a teacher and later a school principal. Our father studied in Jászapáti and graduated from Kalocsa High School, then after graduating - following his brother - he entered the Jesuit order. He was a novice in Kassa and Pécs. 5 years later - due to his illnesses and deteriorating health - he left the order, but kept in intensive contact with the leaders and members of the order, even after the order was scattered in Hungary. He was a soldier in the Second World War, then graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Science and the Humanities of the University of Szeged and received a doctorate in philosophy. During his university years, he met Mária Muzsik, whom he married in 1947.

Our mother was born on December 3, 1922 in Budapest. Her father dr. István Muzsik was a lawyer, her mother was Erzsébet Tóbiás. The family lived in Albertirsa, completed her lower education there, and then graduated as a teacher of mathematics and physics at the University of Szeged.

From 1947, they worked as direct employees of the KALOT (National Board of Catholic Agrarian Youth Boys' Associations) founder Jenő Kerkai SJ in the Centrum Sociale and the Village-Spiritual Practice Houses movement. Their first child was born in 1948. Their first child was born in 1948. Even that year, our father was imprisoned for 2 years for his church ties and then - without a court order - spent 3 years in the Recsk Forced Labor Camp. At the Recsk camp, he lost half his eyes as a result of an accident and a lack of health care. Meanwhile, our mother received miliaris tuberculosis and only the streptomycin discovered at the time saved her life. After her recovery, she moved to Pécs and was placed in the Klára Leöwey high school. 

The family - together with our widowed maternal grandmother, who lived with us until her death in 1972 - lived in an apartment in a basement, and after the birth of their fourth child we got an apartment in the new part of Pécs, the "Uranium City". We Growing up in a religious environment, in addition to several members of the local clergy, our Jesuit uncle regularly visited us when he was not in prison, and we often met our father's best friend, Father Jenő Kerkai, who was an assistant gardener at the Püspökszentlászló Social Home during those years. The family moved to Tatabánya in 1968, partly because our father got a better job (he became the head of the programming group of the Komárom County Construction Company), partly because my parents could meet regularly with Father Jenő Kerkai, who was placed in the Pannonhalma Social Home. The proximity of Budapest provided an opportunity for my parents to activate their personal relationships, especially the ties between Töhötöm Nagy and his family, who had returned home in the meantime.

Our father has been dealing intensively with philosophical-human issues since the 1970s. Its goal was to develop a complex worldview based on mathematical-systems theory that not only combines the great scientific discoveries of the twentieth century, but also provides a possible answer to the eternal questions that occupy humanity. This worldview, which follows in the footsteps of Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy but goes far beyond it, is based on the assumption that the human-known laws of the material world can be extrapolated and used to view the material and transcendent worlds in unity. These ideas are too new, their terminology is significantly different from the usual and required an in-depth knowledge of the natural sciences and philosophy of religion, so it is no wonder that neither Marxist philosophers nor ecclesiastics were receptive to his work. Our father did his best to make his works known, he was in regular contact not only with the renowned thinkers of the Hungarian Church, but also with some of the excellence of scientific life. In 1975 he made a tour of Rome and Austria, where he presented his works to several ecclesiastical scholars, he received words of praise and principled support, but no practical help, so his works did not appear in print. In 2002, he received a used laptop from us as a gift for Christmas, and for the next six years he reworked and digitized his work, which had previously only been in manuscript or typed form. We publish these works digitized by him, but these works are also available in a slightly edited and corrected form on the electronic interface of the National Széchenyi Library.

In addition to raising 5 children, our mother worked as a high school math and physics teacher until she retired, and she also tutored many children during her retirement years. Throughout her life, she provided a balanced, loving background for our father, and he monitored his work with understanding, interest, help, and support. She suffered from severe, progressive osteoporosis and was forced into a wheelchair for the rest of her life after a fracture of the femoral neck in 1996. Quietly, cheerfully, she endured her illness, her bed-boundness, her constant pain, and her life testified that the soul, with the help of God, overcomes the misery of the body. Her reflections and short stories on Christian family life, relationships, parenting, illness, old age were published between 1996 and 2005 in the form of small booklets published by the Association of Catholic Women and Girls.

After our mother's accident, our parents were taken over by our sister living near Tatabánya, providing them with a calm and loving family atmosphere. Our mother died in 2005 and our father in 2012.