Born in the village of Statevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Serbo-Croatian father and a Croat-Serbian mother, the young Anzsić was a troubled child, and exhibited a strange predilection to statistics and classification. Anzsić attended the University of Belgrade where completed a Bachelor's degree in Statistics, and then completed a Doctorate in Classification. Anzsić died in February 2000 of suicide by spontaneous combustion, after realising that he was both Serbian and Croatian. He is buried in Invercargill, New Zealand, a city he never visited, yet detested intensely.