Vladimir Anić

Vladimir Anić (21 November 1930 – 30 November 2000) was a Croatian linguist and lexicographer. He is the author of Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika, the first modern single-volume dictionary of Croatian.

Biography Anić was born in the family of noted geologist Dragutin Anić, who had been stationed in Užice, Serbia at the time. Vladimir Anić completed gymnasium in Zagreb, and received a B.A. degree in Yugoslav languages and literature and Russian language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1956.

He moved to the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar from 1960. He served as the head of the Department of Croatian literary language between 1975 and 1992. 90 years after the last comparable dictionary by Ivan Broz and Franjo Iveković. Two expanded and revised editions followed in 1994 and 1998, while the fourth edition, complete with a CD-ROM version, was published posthumously in 2003.

Other major works by Anić are (first published as in 1986), an orthographic manual coauthored with , as a counterweight against purism.

Legacy Anić's work was one of the major underpinnings for the online Croatian dictionary Hrvatski jezični portal in 2006.