Education
He attended primary school in his native village. From 1920 to 1928, he studied at Aron Pumnul High School in Cernăuți, the capital of the region, which had meanwhile become part of Romania.
He attended primary school in his native village. From 1920 to 1928, he studied at Aron Pumnul High School in Cernăuți, the capital of the region, which had meanwhile become part of Romania.
With three classmates, he published the single number of Caietul celor patru magazine. In 1929, he entered the theology faculty of Cernăuți University, graduating in 1934. While a student, he contributed to the local publications Tribuna, Spectatorul, Munca intelectuală, Evenimentul, Glasul Bucovinei and Junimea literară.
The mission of the press and the magazine (also called Iconar) was to promote Bukovina"s new literature, a synthesis of tradition and modernity.
In 1935, he became ill with tuberculosis. Back at Cernăuți from 1938 to 1940, he led Suceava newspaper, was press adviser for Ținutul Suceava and vice president of the Bukovina Writers" Society.
In 1940, he was a clerk in the Propaganda Ministry. As his disease worsened, he was obliged to stay at Filantropia Hospital and, from 1944, at the Filaret Sanatorium.
He died the following April.
From 1937 to 1938, he lived in the national capital Bucharest, where he edited the Iron Guard-affiliated newspaper Buna Vestire.
While there, he was a member of the Steluța cultural society and managed the school magazine, Ecoul tinerimii.
