He was born into an Aromanian family in Avdella (Avdhela), a village that formed part of the Ottoman Empire's Manastir Vilayet and is now in Greece.
[1] His first book was a printed conference report, the 1915 Aromânii din punct de vedere istoric, cultural și politic.
[1] A good part of his work dealt with the literary, folk and religious corpus in the Aromanian language, and was aimed at making it known and emphasizing its value.
An early work in this direction was Antologie aromânească ("Aromanian Anthology"; 1922),[1] which features a selection of folk literary texts (proverbs, riddles, lyrical poems, ballads, legends, stories, traditions and fairy tales), cultured literature (extracts from works by Zicu Araia, Nicolae Constantin Batzaria, Constantin Belimace, Marcu Beza, Leon Boga, Tache Caciona, George Ceara, Ion Foti, George Murnu, Nuși Tulliu, Nicolae Velo and others), Aromanian folk music and a glossary.
Grai, folclor, etnografie, 1932; Poezia lirică populară, 1948, Mic dicționar folcloric, 1979), as well as of linguistics (Din morfologia limbei române, 1937; Manual de fonetică romanică, 1943; Dicționarul dialectului aromân general și etimologic, 1963), are the result of careful fieldwork and show a vast erudition not only in his specialty, but also in related fields.