He attended elementary school in his native village, was a high school student in Szombathely and graduated in mathematics and physics at the ELTE University. He was a professor in general physics at his alma mater since 1962. In his youth he wrote Hungarian poems, love poems for his later wife, and at the age of 42 he began to regularly write Croatian poems in Gradišće Croatian language and to translate Hungarian poems into Croatian. For many years he was the Chairman of the Croatian Self-Government for District II in Budapest. After his death, according to his request, he was buried in the cemetery of his native village.