He was born in Siatista (Greek: Σιάτιστα), then part of the Ottoman Empire, now in Greece.
At 1907 he served as director of a school in Siatista and took part in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
He was arrested by the Ottoman authorities and taken to nearby city of Lapsista in West Macedonia.
In the interwar years, after West Macedonia became part of Greece, he taught in Kozani,[2] founded the first Agricultural Cooperative there, and helped to set up the first Scouts team in West Macedonia.
He is the author of the book "Macedonian Itinerant Merchants in the Countries of Austria-Hungary" (first edition 1939).