He was an exemplary student in the village school where it went Macinec Cakovec in elementary school and high school in Varazdin. It bothered him even then as lectures in Medjimurje in Hungarian but the first political experience gained in working in Varazdin printers Stephan Platzer. 1907th He enrolled to study law at the same time studying Zagreb and Budapest. Both studies completed in 1910. Year.
He has published his political views but the highest mark in the wake of his nation, Međimurje awareness left the first world war. Then the young Croatian intelligentsia opposed alien interests. In December 1918. by Dr. John Novak elected commissioner for the Medjimurje National Council's (like today's Parliament). With him at the head of a Memorandum of Medjimurje in which they described the Hungarian repression against Medimurec after World War II. Dr. Novak has launched a voluntary force of the entire Croatian Međimurje for liberation and triumph occurred in significant time - 24 December 1918. Then they marched to Cakovec Croatian military forces. Dr. Novak is also at Christmas chaired public assembly held today at the Franciscan Square, in front of the Church of St. Bishop Nicholas and the masses of people.