JELENIĆ, JULIJAN. - Franciscan historian, b. at Riječane in Bosnia on 29 Aug. 1877, d. on 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 was one of the most prolific modern historians of the Church in Croatia.
He left an extensive documented general history of the Church and elucidated the vicissitudes of the great Franciscan province of Bosnia, around which for several centuries the entire religious and cultural life of most of the Croatian territory and people revolved. His principal works are: The Royal Vivoko and the Convent of St. Nicholas (Sarajevo 1906); Culture and the Bosnian Franciscans (2 vols., there 1912-15); The History of the Church of Christ (up to 1954), there 1921-28); Sources for the Cultural History of the Bosnian Franciscans 1437-1878 (there 1918); Documenta res gestas Fratrum Minorum provinciae Bosniae Argentinae spectantia (Mostar 1927), etc. He also wrote articles and dissertations in various scholarly journals.