 Following the ideas of French educators he actively worked on the education of the people.He thought that a strong intellectual elite should be formed in order to re-connect the Serb people with European trends.His educational mission and charitable activities coincided to a great extent with the aims of Matica Srpska, which had been founded in Budapest in 1826 by a young doctorate student Jovan Hadžić (a senator of the Magistrate of Novi Sad, an author of the Serbian Civil Law from 1844) and a group of rich businessmen