Tibor Sekelj (14 February 1912 Spišská Sobota , near Poprad in Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Slovakia – 23 September 1988 Subotica in Vojvodina, Serbia, Yugoslavia, now Serbia and Montenegro) was an explorer, esperantist, writer, and lawyer of Croat 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.
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