He was born in Chromio of Kozani in 1923.

He received his first education in his village’s Primary School, he finished the 6-grades Boys’ Secondary School of Kozani in 1941 and he graduated from the Pedagogical Academy of Thessaloniki in 1944, where he received the Teacher's Degree.

As a teacher, he served for 17 years in Aiani of Kozani, 16 years in Kozani’s Primary Schools, the 7th and the 5th, while in the last two years of his 35-years’ service, he was a Deputy Inspector of Primary Schools in the Educational Region of Kozani..

As director of schools, he played a leading part in the construction of schools in Aiani and of the 7th Primary School of Kozani and he worked hard for:

a) the spreading of greenery through the creation of school gardens and reforestation
b) the combating of illiteracy
c) the foundation of cultural associations and
d) the operation of rapid education for 106 young people to learn the carpenter’s and the builder’s craft.

For the protection of antiquities, he cultivated the archaeological conscience of Aiani’s students and inhabitants, so that they would become guardians and protectors of the cultural heritage monuments.

As unsalaried Curator of Antiquities for 30 years, he founded the Archaeological Collection of Aiani for the preservation of the dispersed archaeological treasures and he prompted the Archaeological Service to carry out excavations in Aiani in order to reveal the valuable treasures hidden in the bosom of the land of Aiani and Elimeia. These excavations from 1983 and thereafter have established Aiani as the 4th largest archaeological centre of Macedonia after Dion, Vergina and Pella.

From Kozani, he toured all around the county and he recorded all the archaeological sites and monuments.

Working for 32 years in the Letters and Arts Association of Kozani as a founding member, as a member of the Administrative Board and during the last 20 years as Chairman, working alone and with several others, he created the Historical – Folklore and Natural History Museum of Kozani and the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle on mount Bourinos in the region of Chromio, where the 1878 revolt broke out for the rescue of Macedonia from Pan-Slavism. At the same time, he contributed to the founding of folklore associations in the prefecture and to the preservation of habits and customs.

He wrote several books on local history, folklore, archaeology, habits and customs. The books published so far are:

• Χρήστος Μανώλης, ο ευεργέτης της Αιανής, 1969.
• Γνωριμία με το Νομό Κοζάνης, 1970 (συλλογική εργασία υπό την προεδρία του).
• Οι Λαζαρίνες 1973.
• ΑΙΑΝΗ, 1974.
• Αποκριάτικα Κοζάνης, 1983.
• Μουσεία και Συλλογές στο Νομό Κοζάνης, 1985.
• Το Μοναστήρι της Λαριούς, 1988.
• Οι Τελάληδες στο Νομό Κοζάνης, 1989.
• Το Ιστορικό- Λαογραφικό και Φυσικής Ιστορίας Μουσείο Κοζάνης.(στα Ελληνικά, Αγγλικά, Γαλλικά και Γερμανικά) 1992
• Ο Νομός Κοζάνης στο χώρο και στο Χρόνο, μέσα από τα εκθέματα του Ιστορικού - Λαογραφικού και Φυσικής Ιστορίας Μουσείου της Κοζάνης 1993.

Since 1980, he was the editor of all the Association’s publications (55 in total) and of the annual periodical publication of “ΔΥΤΙΚΟΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ” (Western-Macedonian Letters), a journal with contributors from all over Western Macedonia on all topics, where he himself published various essays. Several libraries of the country and of the expatriate Greeks have been enriched with complimentary copies of these publications.