[2] Glisić's family came from Bela Crkva, then in southern Hungary, part of the Austrian Empire.
He graduated from gymnasium and attended law schools in Budapest and Vienna before getting a teaching post at the Belgrade's Velika škola (Grandes écoles) in 1866.
In politics, he first allied himself with the Liberals but later he switched sides and joined the founders of the People's Radical Party in 1881.
it is said that late 19th- and early 20th-century Serbian legal philosophy and theory was shaped with the writings and lectures of Gligorije Giga Geršić.
[3] Also, Glišić is credited for being the first Serbian writer to translate Shakespeare's play "Richard III" in 1864.