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About George Vid Tomashevich
- George Vid Tomashevich (Vocin, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 3 March 1927 – Berkeley, California, 3 December 2009) was an eminent Serbian poet, writer and professor of anthropology in the United States of America.
- As a scholar of universal erudition, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at State University of New York, College at Buffalo, Tomashevich was an eloquent speaker and greatly in demand among Serbian Americans and Serbian Canadians. Tomashevich belonged to a distinguished Serbian family in Slavonia which had taken refuge in Belgrade from the World War II persecution of Serbs at the time when Ante Pavelic founded and led the Independent State of Croatia during the Axis occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941.
- In Belgrade many Serbs from Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kossovo, Macedonia and Montenegro found a safe heaven under the protection of Milan Nedic's government in German-occupied Serbia. He was a most liberal-minded man, both in politics and religion, an enthusiastic supporter of popular education and a most inspiring teacher.
- He took great interest in the struggle of the Serbs for independence and strongly favoured the establishment of a monarchy (along British lines) which came about in 2002 when Crown Prince Alexander Karageogevic decided to return home to his ancestral roots.
- Tomashevich was a member of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia’s Privy Council.
- He was also a member of The Serbian Heritage Academy of Canada, based in Toronto, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) in Belgrade, and the Nikola Tesla Memorial Society of New York. He came to the United States shortly after World War II.
- He received his bachelor's degree in sociology from Roosevelt University and his master's and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the University of Chicago.
- He came to Buffalo in 1968 to teach anthropology at Buffalo State College and retired in 1995. His distinguished academic career, including many books, articles and public lectures, contributed to the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, History, Philosophy, Philosophy of History, History of Philosophy and Science, Comparative Religion, Mythology, Linguistics, Folklore and Literature.
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- Tomashevich, who was born in Vochin, former Yugoslavia, was a survivor of a concentration camp run by Croatian authorities during the Second World War.
- This harrowing experience stayed with him, and influenced his academic work, for the rest of his life.
- As a scholar and poet, he wrote movingly on universal human topics, as well as on achievements of Serbian art, history and culture.
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