A native of Slavonian Posavina village of Davor (before Svinjar), was the son of the border officers, and this is the career that he had chosen. He began as an ordinary soldier in the army gained the rank of captain. He fought in the Seven Years War in 1757 until he was captured by the Prussians in Wroclaw (Breslau), and spent his captivity in Frankfurt on the Oder. There he threw himself on the extensive and unsystematic reading French and German rationalist and Enlightenment writers (Bayle, Voltaire, Diderot, and probably the Polish Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowskoga, author of the poem satire that was probably used as a template ..-No, it is only on assumptions, because he never discovered his captive's reading). Having returned from captivity, there is some time spent in warfare (Bavaria), but saturated with military life, he withdrew into retirement (after he was Emperor Joseph II. awarded hereditary title of nobility). He died in Vinkovci.