Born in Bucharest to a low-ranking employee of the Education Ministry, he attended primary school in his native city.
There, his professors included Anghel Saligny, Elie Radu, Ion Ionescu-Bizeț, David Emmanuel, and Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen.
[1] In the autumn of 1920, Traian Lalescu invited him to become assistant director of the new Timișoara Polytechnic School, and he held this position until 1924.
[2] There, he was rector from January 1941, in the aftermath of the Legionnaires' rebellion, until October 1944, after the coup against the country's pro-Axis dictator.
Following the education reform imposed by the new Communist regime, he was assigned to teach at the Bucharest railway institute until this was absorbed by the Polytechnic.