Andjelija Stančić

Anđelija Stančić Spajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Анђелија Станчић was a Serbian writer, teacher, and participant in the First World War. She was born in Šid, Srem County, Vojvodina (then part of the Austrian Empire) in 1865, and died in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia in 1955.

In 1918 Stančić was awarded the Krst Milosrđa (Order of the Cross of Mercy) which she gladly accepted, but the Order of Saint Sava in 1923, she categorically rejected. Her work came to light after the breakup of Yugoslavia, when her chef d'oeuvre – Najstariji jezik Biblije ili Jedan od najstarijih kulturnih naroda—was reprinted in 1994.