[1] He is remembered as an academically-trained Serbian-born writer and enlightener who laid the foundation for the development of modern Serbian literature, according to literary critic Jovan Skerlić.
During the Great Turkish War of 1689-1699 he left central Serbia for Serbian territories up north, bordering Hungary.
With Arsenije III Čarnojević he came to settle in Szentendre, where he began to make a name for himself as the dean of a scriptorium, a diligent copyist of manuscripts and books, and writer of one of the early Serbian primers called Bukvar in 1717, an adaptation of a Primer by Russian writer Fedor Polikarpov-Orlov (1660-1731).
[3] He compiled the Буквар словенских писмена ("Primer of Slavic Writings"; 1717), in which he gave the first rules of modern Serbian versification.
Among the original works, the most significant is his inspired Стихира светом кнезу Лазару ("Stihira to the Holy Prince Lazarus"; 1692)