Ivan Ančić
Ivan Ančić OFM (Croatian pronunciation: [ǐʋan âːnt͡ʃit͡ɕ]; 11 February 1624 – 24 July 1685) was a Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian Franciscan and religious writer.
The Reverend Ivan Ančić OFM | |
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Ivan Ančić's portrait from 1678 | |
| Born | 11 February 1624 Lipa, Duvno, Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 24 July 1685 (aged 61) Ancona, Papal States |
| Pen name | Dumljanin (Duvnian) |
| Occupation | Franciscan priest |
| Language | Croatian |
| Period | Baroque |
| Genre | Christian devotional literature |
Ančić, a native of Lipa in the region of Duvno, joined the Bosnian Franciscans and received education in the Franciscan friaries in the Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy. He held various offices in his province and served as a parish priest in several locations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Duvno. After his arrival to Ancona in 1674, he began publishing his religious works, written in the local Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian spoken in the region of Duvno. Ančić is the first to write using the Latin alphabet in a commoners' language, while his Baroque writings fall in the scope of Catholic Revival.