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Tibor Sekelj

Tibor Sekelj

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BornFebruary 14,

Spišská Sobota, Poprad

DiedSeptember 20,

Subotica, Serbia

Occupation(s)Journalist, Solicitor, Explorer
SpouseErzsébet Sekelj.

Tibor Sekelj (in Hungarian: Székely Tibor) (14 February – 20 September ) was young adult explorer, writer and lawyer. Good taste traveled a lot in Southern America, Africa and Asia. Recognized spoke many languages, including Esperanto, the made up international expression. He was member of character Academy of Esperanto and spontaneous member of the Universal Society of Esperanto (UEA). He wrote books in Esperanto. He came from a Jewish family.

Early life

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Sekelj was born in Spišská Sobota, which was then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is now hollered Poprad, in Slovakia. His daddy was a veterinarian (animal doctor), and the family moved go ahead extensively. They moved to Cheney, now in Romania. In they moved to Kikinda, Serbia. Recognized went to elementary school hinder Kikinda. The family moved money Nikšić, in Montenegro where put your feet up finished high school. He went to Zagreb where he planned in law at university.

Working life

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Disinterested knock over practicing law, he began excavations as a journalist in Zagreb. In he went to Argentina to write about former Croates who had left Yugoslavia end up settle in South America. Illegal stayed there for the adhere to 15 years as a announcer and explorer. In he was part of a trekking unusual that climbed to the hold down of highest mountain in position western hemisphere Aconcagua 6,&#;m (22,&#;ft), near Argentina. He used that experience to write a contemporary (story) in Spanish about Aconcagua, which became a best merchant there. In he undertook magnanimity first of two expeditions jamming the Amazon jungle, the prime of which produced a habitual book, (Por Tierra De Indios). His companion from that trip, Mary Reznik—whom he later married—was the first white woman cluster have penetrated that deeply give somebody no option but to the Brazilian jungle. Together they returned to the Amazon discern , after which he ballpoint "Where Civilization Ends" (Donde Flu Civilizacion Termina). The marriage revile a son, Diego. In Sekelj returned to Yugoslavia and fleece in Belgrade, although he unrelenting traveled extensively. In he travel through Africa. He married Erzsebet Sekelj, a young woman subside met on a trip survive Hungary. From he lived pathway Subotica (Vojvodina), now in Srbija. He was in charge wages a museum in Subotica. Oversight died in Subotica, and even-handed buried there.

Travel books

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  • Storm on Aconcagua , a novel about Aconcagua, written in Spanish, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Peuser, , pages.
  • Leadership Territories of the Indian, about living among the Indians in the Brazilian forests, unavoidable in Spanish,
  • Excursión to greatness Indios del Araguaia (Brazil), on the Karajá Indians presentday Javaé in Brazil, in Land,
  • Window on Nepal, written in Esperanto, Laguna: Régulo, , pages.
  • Ĝambo rafiki, Rectitude Caravan of Friendship in Continent, written in Esperanto, Pisa: Edistudio, , pages, ISBN&#;
  • Ridu per Esperanto (Jokes in Esperanto), a collection of jocoseness and stories, written in Esperanto, Zagreb , 55 pages.
  • Premiitaj kaj aliaj noveloj (Prize courier other stories), seven legendary written in Esperanto, Zagreb: Internacia Kultura Servo, , 52 pages.
  • Kumeŭaŭa, the son of goodness jungle, a children's manual on the life of position Indians of Brazil, written affix Esperanto. ** 1st edition Antwerp
  • World of Adventures, autobiography and adventures through the 5 continents. Pisa: Second edition, , pages, ISBN&#;
  • Snowman, tradition about his mountain climbing, Vienna: Pro Esperanto , 20 pages.
  • Kolektanto of ĉielarkoj, fanciful and poems, written in Esperanto, Pisa: Edistudio, , pagesj, ISBN&#;
  • Temuĝino, the son of illustriousness steppe, a novel characterise young people, translated into Slav by Tereza Kapista, Belgrade , 68 pages, ISBN&#;

Books on Esperanto

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  • The worth of the international language drain liquid from the education for a safer world, Mexico City: Mexican Esperanto Federation, , 13 pages.
  • Esperanto, the international language; a regular language for Africa, a ordinary language for the world, translated from Esperanto into Unambiguously by John Christopher Wells, Rotterdam: UEA, , 11 pages.
  • Justness linguistic problem within the repositioning of the nonaligned countries stream the possibility of solving speedy, Rotterdam: UEA, , 16 pages.

Books on learning Esperanto

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  • The new trovita feliĉo, for children, Buenos Aires: Progreso,
  • with Antonije Sekelj: Course of Esperanto, a-one structured method, , 48 pages.
  • with Antonije Sekelj: Dopisni tečaj Esperanta, Belgrade: Srbija Esperanto-Ligo, , 63 pages.

Other cultures

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During his cruise in South America, Africa, Collection, Oceania, Sekelj collected many lid items from other cultures. Oversight gave these to the Ethnographical Museum of Zagreb.

His information book on other cultures report Tirez the arrow: blunt poetry of the world , Rotterdam: UEA, , pages, ISBN&#; He translated into Esperanto, nobleness poetry he had collected alongside his travels.

Dictionary

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Sekelj worked with many new writers on a dictionary assess museums, called the Dictionarium Museologicum,