He studied philosophy in Paris. He embraced the democratic and social ideas of his time and tried to apply them when he returned to Greece (Nafplio and Kefalonia). He was influenced by the philosophers and intellectuals of the time (Hegel, Saint Simon, Charles Fourier) and the group of Korais’ followers who had formed the Hellenic Society in Paris, of which he became a member.

He took part in all the revolutionary movements against the British occupation (protection) of the Ionian Islands. He was exiled in 1839. In Nafplio he continued his activity against the English. At the request of the English ambassador he was arrested in Athens and imprisoned in Medreset and Itz Kale in Nafplio. He was a friend and like-minded friend of Gustave d’Eichtahl, a Philhellene socialist who was concerned with the agrarian question in Greece.

He was a narrator and then (1843) a regular professor of philosophy at the University of Athens. He taught history of philosophy. He was repeatedly suspended because he was accused of causing riots by his teaching. He wrote articles in the newspaper Aion and in the journals Socrates and Progress , with anti-Othonian writings. He wrote the ‘Introduction to Philosophy’. In 1840 he translated in two volumes the Complete Works of Isocrates and the work of the Italian enlightener Cesare Beccaria, entitled On Offences and Penalties (1842). He was a member of the Great Society of Greece.