Education
In the mid 1910s he graduated from the faculty of humanities of the University of Graz.
In the mid 1910s he graduated from the faculty of humanities of the University of Graz.
Later he worked as a professor of Albanian and Latin in the Skanderbeg"s Mother Institute in Tiranë. After World World War II he co-wrote the Albanian-German Dictionary of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. From the 1950s to his death in 1971 he worked as a professor of Albanian studies in the University of Palermo.
In 1921 in Vlorë, he was elected general secretary of the Fatherland Federation, a democratic organization led by Avni Rustemi.
From 1940 to 1944 he was a member of the Institute of Albanian Studies, the predecessor of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. As a member of the institute in 1941 he became one of the editor of a two-volume anthology of Albanian literature.