[3][4][5][6][7] After the Second Balkan War, he settled in Edessa, in Fano of Kilkis, in Goumenissa and finally in Thessaloniki.

Then, he returned to Thessaloniki, and together with Kostas Kokkinos, they ran the management of the magazine Makedonika Grammata (Μακεδονικά Γράμματα).

[9] He served as the library manager from its foundation in 1939 until 1963, with some compulsory pauses, most notably during the German occupation of Greece.

From then until 1974 he traveled to many countries, United States, Austria, Romania, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and finally Cyprus.

[citation needed] He died on September 15,[1][6] 1996,[4][7] after a two-month hospitalization in a clinic of Thessaloniki, at the age of 93.