Vouzas was born in about 1857 in Kastoria, then Ottoman Empire (now Greece).

[1] He soon became a member of the so-called "New Filiki Etaireia", established by Anastasios Pichion in 1867.

[2] His actions were discovered by the Ottoman authorities, which lead to his imprisonment in Monastir.

During the First Balkan War he was appointed as a director of a 150-bed military hospital.

Shortly after, in 1914, he volunteered for the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.