He was born in Piraeus on 27 July 1900. From 1915 to 1919 he studied at the Theological School of the University of Athens. During the three-year period 1924-1927, with a scholarship from the wealthy Alexandrian X. During the three-year period of twenty-five years, under the scholarship of the wealthy Alexandrian philosopher Alexander Nomikos, he made postgraduate studies in Germany and France and in 1927 he was awarded a doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tübingen.

He served in education from 1920 and as a teacher he passed through all levels of the hierarchy: for a few months as a secondary teacher of the Greek School in Agios Nikolaos Melitini of Mani, and from 1921-1923 at the Averofio Gymnasium of Alexandria. After completing his postgraduate and doctoral studies in 1927 he returned to Averofio Gymnasium. During his stay in Egypt he was initiated into the “Alexander the Great” Lodge which was then operating in Alexandria under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Greece.

In October 1931 he returned to Greece and was sent by the Ministry of Education to direct the Mytilene Teaching School. In 1934-1936 he was Director of the Pedagogical Academy of Alexandroupolis and from 1937-1938 he was Deputy Director and Director of the Pedagogical Academy of Ioannina. In 1938-1939 he was a professor at the Marasleio Pedagogical Academy, in 1939-1943 Director at the Pedagogical Academy of Tripoli, in 1943-1944 co-director and director at the Ralliio Pedagogical Academy of Piraeus.

After liberation he was appointed Director General (1944-1946) and later (1950 and 1963) Secretary General at the Ministry of Education by the then Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou. From 1946 to 1967 he was a regular literary contributor to the newspaper ‘To Vima’.

In the post-independence period he was elected as a member of the State Parliament with the Union of Centre – New Forces (1974-1977). In the 1977 elections he was the head of the state ballot of the Union of Democratic Centre (E.D.K.). In 1977 he was elected Honorary President of the National Society of Greek Writers.

In 1980, two years before his death, he was elected a full member of the Academy of Athens. He passed away on 2 May 1982.