 In 1795, Berzeviczy took a minor part in the jacobinist Martinovics-plot against Joseph II, named after its leader, Ignác Martinovics.After its failure, Berzeviczy retired from active work, and turned to science, especially to economics and ethnography, and writing.He was one of the first economists in Hungary to realize that the feudal liaisons were heavily blocking the country's economical advancing possibilities.