Basil Pandžić

Basil Pandžić
Basil Stephen Pandžić (2011)
Born	30 January 1918 Drinovci, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Occupation	historian, archivist, orientalist
Language	Croatian, Latin, Italian, French, German, Spanish, English
Nationality	Croatian
Ethnicity	Croat

Basil Stephen Pandžić (also Fr. Basil Pandžić), (* 30 January 1918, Drinovci, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a famous Croatian historian, archivist and orientalist from Herzegovina.

Basil Stephen Pandžić was born on January 30, 1918 in Drinovci, district Ljubuški, then still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lives in Zagreb. He finished elementary school in his hometown in 1929, high school in Široki Brijeg in 1938, entered the novitiate of the Franciscan Order (OFM) in Humac. He began his philosophical and theological studies in Mostar, and he was ordained to the priesthood in 1941. In 1942 he continued his studies in Rome and earned his licentiate in 1943. At the Pontifical Antonianum University he received his doctorate in theology in 1945 with a thesis on the history of Trebinje-Mrkan. In 1947 he studied archive science, paleography and diplomacy at the Vatican School (associated to Vatican archives), acquiring the title paleographus et archivarius. At the Roman State University (La Sapienza), Department of Islamic Sciences (Arabic, Persian and Turkish), he earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1951.