The European Esperanto Union declared 2012 "The Year of Tibor Sekelj" to honor the 100th anniversary of his birth
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Tibor Sekelj
Tibor Sekelj, 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, a children's book about the life of Br…
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Born 14 February 1912 · Died 20 September 1988 · Q10716
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1988· 1 entry
Died 1988-09-20.
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1987· 2 entries
Based on automatic translation from eo:Tibor Sekelj with vikitradukilo / Apertium
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It was voted best Children's book in Japan
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1986· 2 entries
Was elected to be a member of the Academy of Esperanto
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Was elected a member of the Academy of Esperanto and an honorary member of the World Esperanto Association
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1985· 3 entries
During the 27th Conference in Sofia, Sekelj was commissioned by UEA to ensure that Unesco would draft a second resolution that would be favorable to Esperanto
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When he took over the UEA in order to prepare the second resolution of UNESCO on Esperanto
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Sekelj met a young woman Erzsébet Sekelj, a librarian, born in 1958, whom he met on a journey through Hungary
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1983· 2 entries
The Japanese ministry for education proclaimed in 1983 as one from the 4 best juvenile literature published in Japan
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Co-founded EVA (Esperantist Writers Association and was its first president
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1982· 1 entry
In Leuven, Belgium, at the World Youth Esperanto Conference, he discussed his Sephardic Jewish ancestry with Neil Blonstein
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1978· 1 entry
During an assignment for Yugoslav TV, he returned to South America, where he visited Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands
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1977· 1 entry
During the same event in Leningrad, he saw Uzbekistan and Central Asia
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1972· 2 entries
Took a four-year job as head curator of the Municipal Museum in Subotica (Serbia – Vojvodina)
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While at the international congress of ethnologists in Chicago Tibor visited eastern Canada and United States
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1970· 1 entry
Yugoslav television sent Sekelj to Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea
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1965· 1 entry
On his way to the World Congress of Esperanto in Tokyo, Tibor traveled by train across Russia (Moscow) and Siberia (Irkutsk and Khabarovsk) to Nahodka, before landing in Yokohama by boat
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1961· 1 entry
Sekelj accepted the invitation of Moroccan Esperantists and traveled to Morocco, where he joined a caravan of Tuaregs nomads into the Sahara
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1956· 1 entry
Drove through Asia as a World Esperanto Association (UEA) observer to an upcoming UNESCO talk held in New Delhi
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1955· 1 entry
And soon after Mary went to the United States, where she remarried
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1954· 1 entry
Sekelj returned to his home in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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1953· 1 entry
Several alpine clubs invited him to take part in their treks
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1950· 1 entry
Became a member of Guatemala society about history and geography and, because of his merits in this area, in 1946 the Royal Geographical Society of United Kingdom accepted him as an FRGS
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1948· 2 entries
And in 1949 asked him to manage Bolivian territory for European refugees after World War II, offering 100
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A failed expedition to find the Jivaros led Tibor and Mary to Bolivia, where they met with President Enrique Hertzog
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1946· 2 entries
Undertook first of two expeditions into the Amazon jungle, which produced a popular book, "Along Native Trails" (Por Tierra De Indios)
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An award, the Golden Condor, along with an offer of Argentinian citizenship due to his bravery on Aconcagua
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1944· 1 entry
With no prior mountaineering experience, Sekelj joined a crew on an ascent on Aconcagua, the highest mountain (6,962m) in the South American continent
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1939· 3 entries
Sekelj was a tireless globetrotter, and his travels and expeditions yielded books that have been translated into over twenty languages
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The other ships that normally traveled to South America from Rijeka-Fiume were being used by Italy due to the war in Africa
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Left Zagreb for Argentina to write an article on Croat exiles for a Zagreb newspaper Hrvatski Dnevnik
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1937· 1 entry
Started to work in Zagreb as a film screenwriter
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1930· 1 entry
Sekelj remained committed to the ideals of the international language throughout his life
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1929· 1 entry
Entered the University of Zagreb (in Croatia) and in 1933 was one of the three youngest students to have graduated from the school of law
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1926· 1 entry
His family moved to Nikšić (now in Montenegro), where he took up gym, mountaineering and where he walked the entire length of Montenegro
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1922· 1 entry
The family settled in Kikinda, part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Serbia), where Tibor learned Serbo-Croatian
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-02-14.
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