JELEINIC, JULIAN. - Franciscan historian, b. at Rijeka in Bosnia on 29 Aug. 1877, d. 5 Aug. 1931. Ordained priest in 1903, he was appointed professor at Sarajevo in 1909 and transferred to the University of Zagreb in 1919. He is one of the most prolific among modern historians of the Church in Croatia.
He left a broad, well-documented general history of the Church and illuminated the history of the great Franciscan province of Bosnia, around which for several centuries revolved the religious and cultural life of most of the Croatian territory and people. His principal works include: Il Regio Viko and the Convent of St. Nicholas (Sarajevo 1906); The Culture and the Bosnian Franciscans (2 vols., 1912–15); The History of the Church of Christ (up to 1954) (ibid. 1921–28); The Sources for the Cultural History of the Bosnian Franciscans 1437–1878 (ibid. 1918); Documenta res gestas Fratrum Minorum provinciae Bosnia Argentinae spectantia (Mostar 1927), etc. He also wrote articles and dissertations for various scholarly journals.