He was a schoolmaster in Tripolitsa in 1800, he was educated with children's notes and learned the art of war especially on knowing how to use a knife.
He was an irreconcilable enemy of the Turks and continuously to quarrel with them, one day, he killed a Turk.
Movably, he fled to Zakynthos (then Zante) where he was enrolled into the British Army.
He returned to Tripolitsa in 1818 as a bodyguard of Asimakis Fotilas, he became ill and Fotilas which he asked and once again returned to Zakynthos.
He went to Kertezi near Kalavryta, formed a strategic body of 15 men and battled at Levidi where he was killed on 14 April 1821.