He was born on 15 June 1763 in Veľká Lomnica (Kakaslomnic) in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia) and died at the same place on 23 February 1822.

Berzeviczy travelled round the countries, which are today called Germany, France, Belgium and England, before returning to Hungary.

During his inland travel experiences, Berzeviczy wrote many reform ideas to the king, Joseph II about boosting the economy of Hungary, but they were inefficient.

He was one of the first economists in Hungary to realize that the feudal liaisons were heavily blocking the country's economical advancing possibilities.

In his book De conditione et indole rusticorum in Hungaria Berzeviczy compared the peasants of Europe by countries, being the first one to do it in Hungary.