She was born in Šid, Srem County, Vojvodina (then part of the Austrian Empire) in 1865, and died in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia in 1955.
[2] Her work came to light after the breakup of Yugoslavia, when her chef d'oeuvre – Najstariji jezik Biblije ili Jedan od najstarijih kulturnih naroda—was reprinted in 1994.
[3] Born in 1865 in Šid in Srem County, Anđelija Stančić graduated from the Girls' High School and Teacher's College in Sombor in 1884.
She served as a nurse during the First World War but was forced into exile when the Central Powers invaded and occupied Serbia in late 1915 and early 1916.
Furthermore, she wrote that such recognition should have come instead for the patriotism for which her hometown of Šabac was famous for or for her activities in the Teachers' Association in Požarevac, where she advocated for the betterment of her profession.