He trained at the institute of physiology in Rome with Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893), followed by work as an assistant to anatomist Francesco Todaro (1839-1918).
By this time the ideas of Nikolay Stankevich, N. G. Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Pisarev and other Russian revolutionary democrats, the materialistic philosophies of Ludwig Buchner, Karl Vogt, and Jacob Moleschott, and the revolutionary theories of Darwin and Herbert Spencer had gained considerable ground among Serbian intellectuals.
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