# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gabor-balint
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:12:41.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gabor-balint"
name: "Gábor Bálint"
slug: "gabor-balint"
description: "Gábor Bálint de Szentkatolnai was a Hungarian linguist, Esperantist, Orientalist, and traveller. He explored Central Asia and the Far East with expeditions led by Hungarian nobles. Balint was a proponent of the idea that Hungarian was a Turanian language and did not accept Finno-Ugric origins."
tagline: "Hungarian linguist (1844–1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Szentkatolnai_B%C3%A1lint_G%C3%A1bor_in_1868.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1844-03-13"
deathDate: "1913-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.65
  momentum:             17.38095238095238
  historical:           5.535205333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Габор Балинт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_B%C3%A1lint"
    title: "Gábor Bálint"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_B%C3%A1lint"
    title: "Gábor Bálint"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_B%C3%A1lint"
    title: "Gábor Bálint"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_B%C3%A1lint"
    title: "Gabor Bálint"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szentkatolnai_B%C3%A1lint_G%C3%A1bor"
    title: "Szentkatolnai Bálint Gábor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_B%C3%A1lint"
    title: "Gábor Bálint"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q586261"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump