Precise details of the biography of Emanuila Janković until today are not known. 1758. is taken as the year of his birth and Novi Sad as the place of birth, though he himself later claimed that he was born in Serbia, in Belgrade. Emanuil finished school in Novi Sad. For further science Janković went to Germany at the University of Halle, where he enrolled in medical school. In 1789, he returns home with the intention to open the first Serbian printing company. He died very young, in 1791 in Subotica, on his way from Vienna in Novi Sad.