- Tibor Sekelj
Tibor Sekelj (in Hungarian: "Székely Tibor") (born
14 February ,1912 in Spišská Sobota,Poprad , present-daySlovakia ; died23 September ,1988 inSubotica , present daySerbia ) was anexplorer , Esperantist,writer andlawyer ofJewish 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 toKikinda (in Vojvodina). There he finished elementary school and then family moved to Nikšić (Montenegro ) where he finished high school (gymnasium). After that he went toZagreb where he graduated inlaw atuniversity .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 inBelgrade , although he still traveled a lot. From 1972 he lived in Subotica (Vojvodina) where he was a director of amuseum for the remainder of his life. He is buried inSubotica .
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