Lederer, Ivo J.

Ivo John Lederer was born on December 11, 1929, in Zagreb, Croatia. After the Nazis invaded the city, Lederer's family fled to Italy and eventually received permission to settle in the United States. In 1951, Lederer received a B.A. from the University of Colorado and in 1957 he completed a doctorate at Princeton. In a twenty-three year teaching career, he held faculty positions in contemporary Russian and Eastern European history at Princeton, Yale, and Stanford and published on Yugoslavia at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I. In 1977, he began a second career organizing discussions between government and business leaders on the interaction of foreign and business policies. Lederer died on June 18, 1998.

From the guide to the Ivo John Lederer papers, 1919-1968, 1952-1958, (Manuscripts and Archives)

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Professor of history at Stanford (1965-1977).

From the guide to the Ivo J. Lederer papers, 1954-1962, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives)

Epithet: historian

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