Born in Roșia Montană, Alba County, in the Transylvania region, his parents were Iosif Hodoș and his wife Ana (née Balint).
He attended primary and secondary school in his native village, at Baia de Criș, Brad, Brașov and Blaj.
At Sibiu, he taught in the Astra civil school for girls and, from 1886 to 1888, belonged to the group around Tribuna newspaper.
[1] Beginning in 1899,[2] he taught Romanian, Hungarian and history at the Caransebeș pedagogical institute in the Banat region.
Hodoș worked on the Sibiu newspaper until his death, aside from a temporary return to teaching, at Sighet between 1919 and 1920 (by which time his native province had united with Romania).