Dr. Jovan Tošković (1893, in Plana, Kolašin – 1943) was a Serbian historian, professor and politician of Montenegrin origin. Born to a merchant family in Plana, Principality of Montenegro, Jovan finished his primary education in the town of Kolašin and later moved to Belgrade under the guidance of his uncle, an envoy of King Nikola. He graduated from the University of Belgrade's newly created Faculty of Philosophy, and having published his doctoral thesis he became the first post-war professor of Serbian history at the university. The fact that he earned his doctorate from the University of Belgrade in 1920 also makes him the first professor of history to have graduated from a Serbian university (as all senior professors earned their doctorates from foreign universities - notably from thos