In Zagreb he attended classical gymnasium and studied Slavic languages, history and geography.
He started out as a dialectologist with an extensive treatise Kajkavački dijalekat u Prigorju ("Kajkavian dialect of Prigorje", 1894).
He wrote a number of grammatical and didactic works, but is mainly known for purist "cleansing" of the Croatian literary language, often exaggerating in his zeal.
[1] His main work is a 1904 book Barbarizmi u hrvatskom ili srpskom jeziku ("Barbarisms in Croatian or Serbian language"; ²1908, ³1913).
People's lives and customs") in Zbornik za narodni život i običaje Južnih Slavena ("Proceedings for folk life and customs of the South Slavs", 1907–08) - an ethnographic monograph about his homeland, written in the local dialect.