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Tibor Sekelj
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Tibor Sekelj was a male explorer, ethnologist, writer, and journalist born in Poprad in 1912. He held citizenship in Cisleithania, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Sekelj was educated at the University of Zagreb and resided in Subotica, where he also died in 1988. He was a member of the Academy of Esperanto.
His native language was Hungarian, and he spoke Esperanto, Hungarian, Serbian, and Serbo-Croatian. Sekelj wrote in Esperanto and produced works including *Window on Nepal*, *Donde la civilización termina*, *Odapni strelu put zvezda*, *Mondo de traviva^joj*, and *Na tragu doživljaja*. He is credited with nine works in author records and eleven works in other collections.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912
- Works
- 9
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1912-02-14 ) 14 February 1912, Georgenberg , Austria-Hungary (now Poland)
- Died
- 23 September 1988 (1988-09-23) (aged 76), Subotica , Yugoslavia
- Occupation
- Writer lawyer explorer esperantist
- Citizenship
- Yugoslavia
- Education
- University of Zagreb
- Period
- 1929–1988
- Genre
- Esperanto literature
- Notable works
- Kumeŭaŭa, la filo de la ĝangalo (1979) Tempesto sur Akonkagvo, La trovita feliĉo, Tra lando de Indianoj, Nepalo malfermas la pordo (Window on Nepal), Ĝambo Rafiki, Mondmapo, Padma, Mondo de travivaĵoj, Elpafu la sagon, Neĝhomo, Kolektanto de ĉielarkoj; See bibliography
- Spouse
- Erzsébet Sekelj
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tibor
- Family name
- Székely
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Place of birth
- Poprad
- Place of death
- Subotica
- Occupation
- Esperantist
- Educated at
- University of Zagreb
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Image
- Tibor Sekelj 1983.jpg
- Residence
- Subotica
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- Commons category
- Tibor Sekelj
- date of birth
- 1912-02-14
- date of death
- 1988-09-23
- writing language
- Esperanto
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Constructed languages/Esperanto task force
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Works in European collections
11 objects attributed to Tibor Sekelj, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Tibor Sekelj (14 February 1912 – 23 September 1988), also known as Székely Tibor according to Hungarian orthography, was a Hungarian born polyglot, explorer, author, and 'citizen of the world.' In 1986 he was elected a member of the Academy of Esperanto and an honorary member of the World Esperanto Association. Among his novels, travel books and essays, his novella Kumeŭaŭa, la filo de la ĝangalo ("Kumewawa, the son of the jungle"), a children's book about the life of Brazilian Indians, was translated into seventeen languages, and in 1987 it was voted best Children's book in Japan. In 2011 the European Esperanto Union declared 2012 "The Year of Tibor Sekelj" to honor the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Early life
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