András Egyed (1913–1984) was a Piarist monk, teacher, and well-known psychologist of languages. He joined the Piarist Order in 1931 and was ordained as priest in 1940. He obtained a degree as a teacher of French and Latin (1940) and completed a doctoral degree (1942) at the university of Budapest. He studied philosophy in Paris (1934–1935). He was a teacher at the Pious Gymnasium of Tata (1940–1941) and in Máramarossziget (1941–1944). He was a member of the resistance against German occupation. In 1944, he helped save persecuted people in the institutes of the Swedish Red Cross. In December 1944, the Gestapo imprisoned and tortured him. Egyed was released in February 1945. He served as a teacher at the Pious Gymnasium of Budapest (1945–1948) and in Vác (1949–1951), and from 1951 until 1974 he worked as a primary teacher in Budapest. Initially, he pursued research on French literature and the history of education. Later, his interests turned to the border areas of linguistics, pedagogy, and psychology. He developed a new psycholinguistic research method founded on linguistic empirical data of Indo-European and partially Finno-Ugric languages. He was a member of the International Council of Psychologists.