Ivan Belostenec
Ivan Belostenec (c. 1594 – 2 February 1675) was a Croatian linguist, lexicographer and poet. 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 on 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
Ivan Belostenec

External links

Gazophylacium seu Latino-illyiricorum onomatum aerarium (1740. ), google.books
Gazophylacium illyrico-latinum (1740. ), google.books
Sacri sermones in sacratissimum festum Corporis Christi (1672. ), digitalna.nsk.hr

1594 births
1675 deaths
People from Varaždin
Croatian writers
Linguists from Croatia
Croatian lexicographers
17th-century Croatian Roman Catholic priests
History of Varaždin