Tibor Sekelj

Tibor Sekelj (in Hungarian: "Székely Tibor") (born 14 February, 1912 in Spišská Sobota, Poprad, present-day Slovakia; died 23 September, 1988 in Subotica, present day Serbia) was an explorer, Esperantist, writer and lawyer of Jewish descent.

Sekelj's father was a veterinarian and the family moved very often. After several months they moved to Cheney (today Romania) and in 1922 they moved to Kikinda (in Vojvodina). There he finished elementary school and then family moved to Nikšić (Montenegro) where he finished high school (gymnasium). After that he went to Zagreb where he graduated in law at university.

He worked as a journalist in Zagreb and in 1939 he went to Argentina to report on Yugoslav emigrants, but he stayed there for the next 15 years as a traveler and investigator. He came back to Yugoslavia in 1954 and lived in Belgrade, although he still traveled a lot. From 1972 he lived in Subotica (Vojvodina) where he was a director of a museum for the remainder of his life. He is buried in Subotica.