Jozo Tomasevich
| Jozo Tomasevich | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Josip Tomašević |
| Born |
March 16, 1908 Košarni Do, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Republic of Croatia) |
| Died | October 15, 1994 (aged 86) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Fields | History Military history Economics |
| Institutions | San Francisco State University Stanford University Columbia University Federal Reserve Bank |
| Alma mater | University of Basel Harvard University |
| Notable awards | Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award (1989) |
| Spouse | Neda Brelić (m. 1937-1994; his death); 3 children |
Josip "Jozo" Tomasevich (March 16, 1908 – October 15, 1994; Serbo-Croatian: Josip Jozo Tomašević, pronounced "tomashevich") was a prominent Yugoslav, and later Croatian-American,economist and military historian. He was professor emeritus at San Francisco State University.
Tomašević was born in the village of Košarni Do on the Pelješac peninsula, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (today part of Orebić municipality, Croatia). He completed his secondary education in Sarajevo before moving to Switzerland to study at the University of Basel, from where he graduated with a Ph.D. in economics in 1932. After graduation, he worked as financial expert at the Yugoslav National Bank in Belgrade until 1938 when he moved to the United States with a Rockefeller fellowship, "availing himself of the rich resources of Harvard University".
In the United States, he first worked at the Food Research Institute of Stanford University as a member of their scholarly staff. During World War II he was affiliated with the Board of Economic Warfare and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Washington, D.C. After the war he first worked at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco. In 1948 he joined the San Francisco State University and he taught there for twenty-five years until he retired in 1973. He taught for a year at Columbia University around 1954.
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