Grandson of the friendly Konstantinos Rados, of continental origin, he studied at the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School 1876-80 and then law at the Universities of Athens and Paris. In 1888 he returned and worked as a journalist in Athenian newspapers. In 1891 he left for Bucharest and took over the editorship of the newspaper Patris. He returned to Athens again where he was appointed secretary of the Council of Ministers. In 1895 he was appointed professor of Naval History at the School of Naval Cadets. He had a true passion for the sea, seamanship and maritime archaeology.

He completes his scientific training and receives his doctorate from the University of Sorbonne. He is appointed Professor of General History at the University of Athens. He was also Professor of the History of Commerce at the Academy of Commerce and Industry. In 1923 he resigned and devoted himself uninhibitedly to writing works while promoting the organization of museums and ethnological societies for historical studies and the preservation of archives. He was the founder of the Historical Ethnological Society (housed in the Old Parliament on Stadiou Street). Also a founding member of the Hellenic Geographical Society. As president of the Ethnological Society, he compiled in 1927 a complete catalogue of the Museum’s objects.

Rados was an opponent of the Municipal Reform, but when he began to write short stories, he realized the value of the Municipal, thus we find his short story The Pilot of Dar-Boyaz, published in Skokou’s National Calendar in 1912. Since then his attitude has changed. The studies he left, mostly historical, were numerous and date from 1890 to 1925. He also made translations of French writers. We mention some titles of his works : Naval short stories (1910), The cruisers of the Cretan Revolution (1869),Naval history of the ancients (1898), The history of modern naval fleets (1901), The Rapture of Gonzaga, The pirate of Gramvousse, etc. In 1930 almost all of his prose work was republished , in two volumes.