Background
Hočevar was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He spent his childhood in the small town of Vrhnika near Ljubljana, where his father served as mayor.
Hočevar was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He spent his childhood in the small town of Vrhnika near Ljubljana, where his father served as mayor.
University of Chicago.
After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, he moved back to Slovenia and continued his studies in the prestigious Bežigrad Grammar School in Ljubljana, graduating in 1945. In 1946 he enrolled at the University of Ljubljana. The same year, however, he decided to leave Communist Yugoslavia and emigrate to the neighbouring Austria.
In 1951 he graduated from economy at the University of Innsbruck.
The same year he moved to the United States, continuing his studies at the University of Chicago. In 1957, he became professor at the Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
In 1960 he started teaching at Keuka College in New York, in 1966 at the Florida State University, and then at the University of New Orleans where he stayed until his death. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1987, and was buried in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.
Hočevar was one of the foremost researchers of the economic history of the Slovene Lands and of the western Balkans.