Gabor Orban

* Kőszeg, January 1, 1883 – † Bratislava, January 28, 1958 / linguist, university lecturer ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in his hometown. He received a Hungarian-Latin teaching diploma from the Budapest University of Science and Technology in 1907. He began his teaching career in Privigyém, then taught in high schools in Bratislava for decades. From 1950 until his death, he taught at the Pedagogical College in Bratislava and at the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature of Comenius University. From its establishment in 1931, he was the president of the Hungarian Scientific, Literary and Artistic Society of Czechoslovakia (“Masaryk Academy”) and a prominent representative of public activism cooperating with the Czechoslovak government, but his activities were criticized by many after he failed to fulfill the expectations set for the Society and the institution became financially unviable. His areas of expertise were Finno-Ugric and Hungarian linguistics, language development and dictionary writing. He was the first to monograph the numerals of the Finno-Ugric languages. His articles on linguistic development were published in contemporary newspapers and were broadcast as radio broadcasts. He also edited a Hungarian–Slovak and Slovak–Hungarian dictionary, but he mainly did significant work as a textbook writer, reader books and text collections. ; ; His main works: ; The Hungarian National Song, 1907, ; The Numerals of the Finno-Ugric Languages, 1932, ; New Slovak–Hungarian and Hungarian–Slovak Dictionary (with Miklós Mendreszóra), 1933, ; The Hungarian Dictionary, 1935, ; The Hungarian Dictionary, 1953, ; The Principles of Correct Hungarians, 1956, ; Introduction to Linguistics, 1956.