Born in Tecuci, his parents were Gheorghe Boureanul, a general who had an engineering diploma from Germany, and his wife Zoița (née Galery).
Following his return to Romania, he worked as a lawyer, reporter, teacher and civil servant in Iași and Bucharest.
[1] Boureanul's first published work appeared in Sămănătorul in 1905; his first book, Povestiri din copilărie, came out the same year.
His contributions ran in Flacăra, Neamul românesc, Floarea darurilor, Drum drept, Adevărul literar și artistic, Arhiva and Evenimentul.
He took a long study trip that took him from Scandinavia to North Africa, Ceylon and western and northern India.