 The two had known each other for many years, for Ghedeon had been a student at the Kiev Theological Academy at the same time as Eustatievici.In 1786 he was appointed the first director of National Romanian and Serbian Schools in Transylvania and teacher of the first pedagogical-theological course in Sibiu (1786-1795).He spoke Serbian, Romanian, Russian, Hungarian, German, Latin, Greek and Old Slavonic.