Orbán Balázs | |
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Painting depicting Orbán Balázs |
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Born | February 3, 1829 |
Died | April 19, 1890 Budapest, Hungary |
(aged 61)
Occupation | writer, historian and politician |
Ethnicity | Hungarian |
Notable work(s) | "Székelyföld leírása" |
Balázs Orbán (1829–1890) was a Hungarian writer, historian and politician.
He was born in Lengyelfalva, Grand Principality of Transylvania (today Feliceni, Romania) and died in in Budapest. His most important work is "Székelyföld leírása", an encyclopedic description of the Szekely Land, first published in 1868 in Budapest, Hungary.