Stevan Dedijer was a Yugoslav

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 academic and a pioneer of Business Intelligence

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Stevan Dedijer was born in Sarajevo

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, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 to Serb

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 parents, Milica Dedijer and Jefto Dedijer

Jefto Dedijer

Jefto Dedijer was a Serb writer, geographer and influential in the formation of the Serb Academy. He who was born to a peasant family, in the 19th century in Bileća in the Herzegovina region of what was then Austria-Hungary. He had three sons, Vladimir, Boro Dedijer and Stevan...

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He attended secondary school in Rome

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, Italy

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, and graduated from the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut

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, in 1930. He earned a degree in physics

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 at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1934.

Stevan worked as a journalist in Pittsburgh

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 and New York

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 and later, after the World War II

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 in Yugoslavia

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He served in the American army as a paratrooper

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 in The 101st Airborne Division

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 from 1942 to 1945 while his brother Vladimir Dedijer

Vladimir Dedijer

Vladimir Dedijer was a Yugoslav partisan fighter, politician and historian.During World War II he was an editor of the Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper Borba, and member of the agitprop section to the General Staff.After the war he was a member of Yugoslav delegation on 1946 Paris peace...

 fought for Tito's Partisans

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