[1] He is also remembered for his Serbian co-translation of Kotzebue's La Peyrouse with brothers Arsenije and Aksentije Tucaković in 1839.
Then in 1862, he returned to the Ministry of Finance as Chief Economist, and in the same year, he became the head of the newly-established Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.
[8] He headed the department but also established reliable statistical data in the archives of Serbia, with the support of Minister Kosta Cukić.
The most important of his works is Državopis Srbije,[9] the State Gazette of Serbia,[10] which he published as a periodical, unofficially since 1855, and officially from 1863.
On 8 January 1850, Jakšić was elected a full member of the Društva srpske slovesnosti (Society Of Serbian Letters) in Belgrade.