He made his poetry debut in 1860 in Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură and submitted poems, critical studies and political articles to the main Transylvanian periodicals of the time: Amicul școalei, Concordia, Federațiunea, Albina, Transilvania and Familia.
[1] Residing at Făgăraș,[2] he practiced law from 1864 to 1880; in 1881, he moved to the Romanian Old Kingdom, settling in the Moldavian capital of Iași.
He was vice president of the city's Cultural League for the Unity of All Romanians chapter, and from 1893 to 1897 edited Revista critică-literară.
His views were grounded in a rigorous, classically oriented theoretical base; he was studious, conscientious and erudite, a competent interpreter of old literature as well as that dating to the 1848 revolution era.
However, he was less conscious of contemporary literature's achievements and a firm opponent of Junimism, which caused his contributions to be neglected or minimized for a long time.