He completed his studies at the Evangelical School of Smyrna. He then studied medicine at the University of Athens. In 1843 he went to Munich and received his doctorate from the University of Munich (1846). He then worked in hospitals in Paris until 1849, when he returned to Greece. He became a storyteller. He then became the first adjunct professor in the new course of General Microscopic Anatomy ( 1852). Later he became an adjunct professor of Pharmacology and in 1862 a full professor. From 1852 to 1863 he is Director of the Pathological Anatomy Laboratories. He had the honor and merit of becoming the 1st D/dean of the newly established Tzaneios Hospital of Piraeus. He acquired great scientific training and is held in high esteem and reputation.

The saying “No doctor is infallible” has gone down in the history of medicine.

He is active in the public sphere, writes medical monographs and articles in medical journals such as Asclepius, Iatrica Melissa, Iatrica Journal. But he also writes on national issues in serious publications of the time, pointing out the coming pan-Slavism. He was inspired and wrote poems about the Cretan struggle ‘The Cretans’ (1867). He translated foreign writers. He supports revolutionary movements in Thessaly, Macedonia, Epirus and Crete! He served as a proxy of Thessaly in the National Assembly of 1862-3. In 1883 he took over the chair of Botany. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Athens and Rector in 1887-88. He was highly esteemed by his other professors and students , as a fair and excellent speaker. At the Tzaneio Hospital there is a statue of him.