[3] In 1909, he obtained his doctorate in medicine and surgery with thesis Congenital absence of the tibia written under the guidance of Ernest Juvara.
After a brief stint as country doctor in Oancea, Galați County, he joined in 1911 the genitourinary diseases service at Saint Spyridon Hospital in Iași, and then was appointed assistant in the surgical clinic directed by Juvara and, later, by Amza Jianu [ro].
During the Romanian campaign of World War I he organized field hospitals in Moldavia, together with Iacob Iacobovici.
The coffin was deposited in the hall of the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy, and the burial took place on January 5, at Bellu Cemetery, with military honors.
In Contemporanul, the poet Tudor Arghezi dedicated a tablet to him, in which he wrote: "Hortolomei closed his eyes in the minute when time passes by, at midnight, in the beginning of the year.