Daniel Dorotich (Novi Sad, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 6 February 1927 - Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada, 24 february 2022^[1]) was a distinguished Canadian educator and professor emeritus in the Department of Slavonic Studies.;^[2]at the University of British Columbia,^[3] and the University of Saskatchewan^[4][5]Daniel Dorotich's specialty was history and education^[6][7]

He was born on 6 February 1927 in Novi Sad where he attended grammar school. Dorotich completed his undergraduate education in Serbia during World War II when he realized that another invader (Communism) began replacing the old order (Kingdom of Yugoslavia), and after the internecine war, decided to seek a new life as a emigrée in Greece, where he spent a few months in Dispalced Persons camps before ending up in Collonges in Switzerland. There he studied Theology in Collonges-sous-Salève and in 1953 he emigrated to Canada. In Montreal, Dorotich attended the Macdonald Campus, a teacher's college, obtained his master's degree from Sir George Williams University and his Ph.D. in history from McGill University^[8]

Dorotich taught at the University of British Columbia from 1962 to 1969; Selkirk College from 1969 to 1970; and the University of Saskatchewan^[9]from 1970 to 1989. He retired shortly thereafter.

Daniel Dorotich was the president of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC) from 1981 to 1983 and a long time member of the Canadian Association of Slavists. He was also a colleague of many prominent Canadian Slavists, including Miloš Mladenović; Veljko Lalich; Ivan Avakumović; Sava Bosnitch; Jaroslav Rudnyckyj^[10].

In Montreal in 1959 Daniel Dorotich married Elizabeth (Betty) Scarlett with whom he had three children, Michael, Andrea, and Paul.

• "Education and Canadian Multiculturalism: Some Problems and Some Solutions", (1981)^[11];

• "A Bibliography of Canadian Slavists, 1951-1971"^[12];

• "Disgrace and Rehabilitation of M.N. Pokrovsky," Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, (1966)^[13];

• "A Turning Point in the Soviet School: The Seventeenth Party Congress and the Teaching of History", (1967)^[14];

• "History in the Soviet school, 1917-1937; changing policy and practice," (1964)^[15];

• "Ethnic Diversity and National Unity in Yugoslav Education: the socialist autonomous province of Vojvodina" (1978)^[16];

• Gertrude J. Robinson: Tito's Maverick Media (Book Review, 1978),^[17];

• Ralph Pervan: Tito and the Students (Book Review, 1979)^[18];

• "Makarenko system: education through the collective," (1961)^[19];

• A. W. Rasporich: "The Slovenes and Yugoslavism: 1890-1914" (1978)^[20]