Jenő Bánó, Roskovány

* 1855. June 25. – † Malaga/Spain, August 2. 1927. / traveler, geographical writer ; ; After graduating from the commercial academy in Fiume, he traveled as a sailor to Italy, France and England. Upon returning home, he entered the service of the railway. He retired around 1889. He then traveled to almost all countries of the world and, after a long wandering, settled in Mexico. Since his coffee plantations there were destroyed by a cyclone, in 1903 he accepted the appointment of the Mexican Republic as Consul General in Hungary. In 1910, he went to Egypt in a similar capacity, and during World War I, he lived in Barcelona, where he wrote political articles against the Allied powers under the pseudonym Suleiman El Fakir. He also gave several readings about his travels in Budapest. The Société Académique D’ Histoire International in Paris awarded him a gold medal and elected him to its membership. In his last years he lived in Spain, where he also published numerous articles. ; ; His main works: ; Travel Pictures from America, 1890, ; Mexico and My Journey to the Tropics, 1896, ; My Wanderings in America, 1906.