He allegedly comes from the family line of the famous general Simeon Zorić, a Serb in the service of Imperial Russia during the rule of Empress Catherine the Great.
During the Slovak years, he met and befriended Martin Hattala, Ján Kalinčiak and Ľudovít Štúr, whose work he translated into Serbian.
In addition to studying law, he also attended lectures on Slavic philology by the famous professor Franc Miklošič together with Đuro Daničić.
[8] After returning to Novi Sad, he worked for a while as a clerk in the law office of Jovan Subotić, and in 1859 he moved to Serbia.
In Belgrade, he first worked as a private teacher for children from respectable homes, and in 1861 he was appointed professor of the Savamal lower grammar school.
During his stay in Novi Sad, he was twice elected a member of the National-Church Assembly in Sremski Karlovci (1872 and 1874) on the list of the Serbian People's Liberal Party.
He published Poems by Branko Radičević (Pančevo, 1879) and Ivan Gundulić's Osman (Zemun, 1889) with a preface and comments.