Géza Csáth was born in Subotica in 1887 (his civil name is József Brenner). He started to write music reviews, play the violin, paint and write poems in his teenage years. He went to Budapest to study medicine. His morphinomania began in 1910, then he slowly became a drug addict. Although he submitted himself to detoxification cures, they were unsuccessful. During World War I he worked as a military surgeon. His shorter writings were published in different dailies and magazines, two of his plays were performed in the Hungarian Theatre, and five anthologies were published during his life. Due to a morphine attack in 1919, he shot his wife dead, so he was taken to the psychiatric ward of the hospital in Subotica. He escaped and tried to get to Budapest, but at the demarcation line, when he was captured by soldiers, he took a lethal dose of poison.