 He attended Codreanu High School in Bârlad and the theological seminary in Roman.His tertiary studies took place at the University of Iași (1906), of Berlin (1907–1908), Paris (1909–1910), Leipzig (1910), Berlin (1910–1911) and Erlangen (1911).After taking his doctorate from the latter university in 1912, on the subject of idealism in contemporary English philosophy and advised by Richard Falckenberg, he returned to Romania and taught German at Codreanu.