Ivan Belostenec was a Croatia

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n linguist

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 and lexicographer.

Life

In 1616. he joined the Paulists

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. He studied philosophy

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 in Vienna

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 and theology

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 in Rome

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. Belostenec was a prior

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 of Pauline monasteries in Lepoglava

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, Svetice at Ozalj

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 and Sveta Jelena at Čakovec

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, and also a visitator (lat.) in Istria

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.

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

Latin

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 treasury

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 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

Zagreb

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1740.