Josip Eugen Tomić

{{Short description|Croatian writer (1843–1906)}}

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| name = Josip Eugen Tomić

| image = Josip Eugen Tomić 1884 Mayerhofer.png

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| caption = Tomić in 1884 for Vienac

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1843|10|18}}

| birth_place = Požega, Kingdom of Croatia, Austrian Empire
{{small|(now Požega, Croatia)}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1906|7|13|1843|10|18}}

| death_place = Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
{{small|(now Zagreb, Croatia)}}

| nationality = Austro-Hungarian

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| occupation = novelist, translator

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Josip Eugen Tomić ({{IPA|hr|jǒsip ěugen tômit͡ɕ}}; October 18, 1843 – July 13, 1906){{cite book |author1=Milorad Živančević |editor = Živan Milisavac |date=1971 |title=Jugoslovenski književni leksikon |trans-title=Yugoslav Literary Lexicon |publisher=Matica srpska |location= Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia |page=539 }} was a Croatian writer and translator.

Tomić was born in Požega. He specialised in writing light-hearted fiction, with which he became very popular. Many of his works dealt with neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is known for translating 50 plays to Croatian. He is also known for completing August Šenoa's historical novel Kletva (The Curse) and for writing his own historical novels. He died in Zagreb.