Dimitriou came from one of the notable and literate families of Gjirokaster, then Ottoman Empire.
He lived at the time when Ali Pasha was the local Ottoman ruler of Epirus.
In 1783, he sent a report to the Austrian Empire that described Ali Pasha's background and the activities of his irregular troops in the region.
One in 1783, entitled Περιγραφή της Βόρειας Αλβανίας και Βόρειας Ηπείρου (Description of Northern Albania and Northern Epirus), which is considered of considerable historical value today.
[3] In 1785, he published in Venice a bilingual Greek-Latin Grammar that contained personal observations, Epistles and Maxims, as well as biographies of notable men.