Mate Meštrović

Mate Meštrović (13 September 1930 – 30 December 2025), also known as Matthew Mestrovic (or Matthew Meštrović), was a Croatian-American journalist, lobbyist, politician and diplomat.

Life and career Meštrović was born on 13 September 1930. The son of Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović, he attended grade school in Zagreb before his family moved to Italy in 1942. The family lived in Switzerland from 1943 to 1946 where he finished 'Ecole Internationale de Genève'. The family moved to the United States of America the following year where his father continued his work as an artist and where Mate would spend most of his life.

He graduated from university in 1951 and the following year received a master's degree in history at the Syracuse University. From 1954 to 1956, he served as a lieutenant in the US Army PsyWar in the Pacific and is also a Korean War veteran. and wrote many articles for American and European newspapers and magazines, including Commonweal, The New Leader, "The Intelligence Report" of The Economist, etc. He taught as Modern European history at Fairleigh Dickinson University and other United States universities from 1967 to 1991. In 1986, he was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. During this visit he made contacts with members of Hrvatski književni list and Matica hrvatska.

He wrote several books in English and Croatian, notably What you should know about Communism and why, The struggle for Croatia and In the whirlpool of Croatian Politics. In the U.S., he published Franjo Tudjman's book, Nationalism in Contemporary Europe, and Venko Markovski's Goli Otok – The Island of Death. He also authored several political tracts, notably Violations of Human and National Rights of the Croatian People in Yugoslavia and Croatian Response to the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Science and Art.

Meštrović returned to Croatia in the early 1990s.

Honours Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2019)