Ivan Belostenec

Ivan Belostenec (Born in Varaždin, ca.1594 - Lepoglava, died February 2, 1675) was a Croatian linguist and lexicographer.

Life

In 1616. he joined the Paulists. He studied philosophy in Vienna and theology in Rome. Belostenec was a prior of Pauline monasteries in Lepoglava, Svetice at Ozalj and Sveta Jelena at Čakovec, and also a "visitator" (lat.) in Istria.

Accomplishments

Belostenec wrote poems (which are lost) and sermons ("Ten Commandments About The Eucharist", 1672.). His main work was a bilingual dictionary "Gazophylacium, seu latino-illyiricorum onomatum aerarium" (Gazophylacium or Illyrian-Latin treasury of words; the other copy of the book has the name "Gazophylacium illyrico-latinum"). The work remained unfinished. Except for its richness of words, (about 40,000 words at 2,000 pages of text) Gazophylacium is also important for its trilingual concept (kajkavian-chakavian-shtokavian) characteristic for the members of the Ozalj literary-linguistic circle. Gazophylacium was finished and prepared for publication by two Paulists - Jerolim Orlović and Andrija Mužar, it was published in Zagreb 1740.

References

* [http://www.moderna-vremena.hr/vrem/ibelostenec.asp Ivan Belostenec (in Croatian)]