During the First Serbian Uprising, he was a commander of the Šabac region and worked as a scribe in the office of Prince Jakov Nenadović (1804-1813).
After the defeat at Ravnje (August 1813) and suppression of the uprising, Teodorović, like many other leaders (voivodes), left Serbia.
The Austrians escorted him to Judenburg in Styria, from where he then left for the Russian Empire, where he wrote Karađorđe's Protocol of letters, reports, and petitions to Alexander I, the Russian emperor, and his ministers and emissaries Ioannis Kapodistrias, Karl Nesselrode, Kozodovlev, Bahmatiev Ivelich in 1816 and 1817 in St.
[5] He made steady progress in service until he became a member of the State Council [sr] in Serbia in 1839.
During the reign of Prince Alexander Karađorđević, he was a member of the district administration and the court in Šabac, the Minister of Justice and Education and the Serbian ambassador (kapućehaja) to Constantinople.