Anton Franki (November 2, 1844 – January 30, 1908) was a Croatian church historian who was politically active in the Illyrian movement, which made him a victim of the Magyarization of the Ban Károly Khuen-Héderváry.
After his doctoral studie in Vienna he returned to Dalmatia and became professor for Church history and Canon law in the Diocesan Seminary in Zadar in 1878.
[1] Beside his theological work he was very interested in the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and an exponent of the Croatian national movement.
Smičiklas attacked Ban Károly Khuen-Héderváry already and tried to focus all the Croatian intellectuals to defend the interest of Croatia against the Magyarization.
[citation needed] But in 1891 his secrete work against Ban Károly Khuen-Héderváry became public by an internal opponent and traitor.