Gábor Bálint
Gábor Bálint de Szentkatolnai (March 13, 1844 – May 26, 1913) was a Hungarian linguist, Esperantist, Orientalist, and traveller. He explored Central Asia and the Far East with expeditions led by Hungarian nobles. Balint supported the idea that Hungarian was a Turanian languages, Turanian language and did not accept Finno-Ugric languages, Finno-Ugric origins. Life and work Bálint was born in the Székelys, Székely family of Endre Bálint and Ágnes Illyés, in Szentkatolna, Háromszék county. The Székely were border guards in the Hungarian Kingdom and had been made into nobility in the 17the century and this was continued by the House of Habsburg, Habsburg King of Hungary, Rudolf (1572–1608) and Prince Gábor Rákóczy I of Transylvania (1630–1648). The village of Szentkatolna was not far from Kőrös where the linguist Sándor Csoma de Kőrös had been born. The Székely folk belief was that they were descendants of the Huns. Kőrös explored the idea in 1822 by trav ...
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