Despite the financial problems of his family, he left his home territory to study in Athens where he passed an exam at the Military Academy of Flight.
However, due to his inability to pay the required registration fee, he enrolled in 1914 in the Mathematical Department of the University of Athens.
These works contributed to the decision of University of Paris to give him the possibility of obtaining a doctoral degree on the basis of his dissertation alone, without taking examinations.
He was also very much appreciated by other French mathematicians of the time and, after his return to Greece, he continued to travel yearly to Paris until the start of World War II.
In 1931 he was appointed professor ordinarius of mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he served until his death on 1957 after a long-term illness.
He was a member of the editorial board of the French journal Bulletin de Sciences Mathématiques between September 1927 and October 1928.