Career
Born in Salamis, Ottoman Greece, he spent some of his early years there and later moved to Athens, where he settled in the Plaka district, being noted at the time as the "Albanian quarter" of the city. Still a young man, he emigrated to America and made his fortune, although little is known about that period of his life. Upon his return to Greece, along with Panayotis Koupitoris, he founded the weekly Η φωνή της Αλβανίας (English: The Voice of Albania), which lasted from September 1879 to mid-1880.
He got arrested in Gjirokastër with the request of the Greek consul and extradited to Corfu.
He was imprisoned in Greece for some time, and he is said to have died poisoned in prison in Athens at the beginning of 1887.
