As a teacher, he lived and worked in Vienna for a time and was also employed in the Illyrian Court Chancellery (dvorske ilirske kancelarije) as its secretary.
[2] Maksimović wrote his satires in a series of articles under the title Mali bukvar za veliku decu ("Little premier for grown-up children") in the language of the common people instead of the antiquated Slavonic-Serbian.
He was forced to spend the rest of his life in minor posts distant from Vienna (such as Petrovaradin and other such places that were considered remote in the Habsburg Empire), like many others in the decade following the French Revolution he became quite reactionary in line with the shifts that saw most of the Austrian Emperor Joseph's reforms of the 1780s retracted before he died.
in 1784[4] that gleans the works of François-Antoine Devaux's (1712–1796) on reclaiming of lands and the Austrian Febronianist pamphleteer Joseph Valentin Eybel's relentless and scurrilous attacks on the Roman Curia, namely the Pope.
[5] In 1792, Mihailo Maksimović's Mali bukvar za veliku decu (Small Primer for Grown-up Children) was published as the first satirical book of modern Serbian literature.