After attending the Saint Sava High School, he enrolled in 1900 in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bucharest, graduating with a doctoral degree in 1910.

During World War I, he ran a hospital for the treatment of patients with epidemic typhus.

In 1918, he was named professor at the Faculty of Medicine, a position he would hold until his death.

[1] He served as Minister of Health and Social Assistance in the Sănătescu and Rădescu cabinets from 4 November 1944 to 28 February 1945.

He died in Bucharest at age 71, and was buried in the tomb of the Ioan Kalinderu family at Bellu Cemetery.