 As a local leading politician, he fought for three decades for the region's Croats renaissance, which he continued in Zagreb, particularly as the ban of Croatia.From 1900 to 1915 he was an attorney in Pula; in 1915 he moved his practice to Zagreb.He was one of the leaders of the Croatian national movement in Istria as well as a member of the Istrian provincial parliament from 1883 to 1914.