Croatian historian Dr. Dragovan Šepić, a retired university professor and an academician, died in Zagreb on February 12, 1997. He was born on December 15. 1907 in Buzet (Istria). He obtained his B. Law Degree from Zagreb's Law Faculty in 1933, but also studied at the International Sciences Institute in Paris during that time. Between 1935 and 1947 he worked in Yugoslav diplomacy. In 1953 he started working at the Adriatic Institute of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (Jadranski institut JAZU) and by 1970 completed a gigantic task researching the history of the Adriatic question. This was also the subject of his dissertation in 1968, published in the book entitled Italija, saveznici i jugoslavensko pitanje 1914-1918 (Italy, Allies and the Question of Yugoslavia 1914-1918; 1970); its second, expanded edition was published under the title Sudbinske dileme radjanja Jugoslavije (Fatal Dilemmas of the Origin of Yugoslavia; 1989). He combined abilities of a historian with his personal experience from the time of WWII in his work Vlada Ivana Subašiča (The Government of Ivan Subašič; 1983), Dr. Šepič lectured on contemporary political history and the history of diplomacy at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb.