A pesar de su vasta actividad periodistica y academica, son escasos los datos que el psicoanalista, periodista y psicologo Bela Szekely dejo acerca de su vida personal y profesional. La reconstruccion de su biografia parece un rompecabezas con piezas procedentes de diferentes fuentes, que mas de una vez resultan contradictorias. En este trabajo se reune informacion disponible en castellano, aleman y hungaro, con el fin de permitir que futuras investigaciones sobre la vida y la obra de esta figura multifacetica se asienten sobre una base historica fiable. Mas alla de los datos biograficos sobre Bela Szekely, el trabajo aborda en detalle los primeros anos de su estadia en la Argentina (1938-1942), periodo en el cual su destino profesional se entrelazo con desarrollos cruciales en el campo “psi” argentino.Despite his extensive journalistic and academic activity, the analyst, journalist and psychologist Bela Szekely left very few data about his personal and professional life. The reconstruction of his biography seems a puzzle with pieces coming from different sources that more than once result contradictory. This paper gathers information available in Spanish, German and Hungarian in order to place future research on the life and work of this multifaceted figure upon a reliable historical background. The early years of his stay in Argentina (1938-1942) will be discussed in detail. It is a period in which the professional fate of Bela Szekely is intertwined with crucial developments in the psychoanalytic and psychological fields in Argentina.