 He took his doctorate in 1893, with a thesis on Immanuel Kant's philosophy ("Zur Entwickelung von Kant's Theorie der Naturkausalität"), one notably quoted by Henri Bergson in his "Introduction à la Métaphysique".After 1897, he served on the editorial board of Spiru Haret's "Albina" popular science magazine.On January 1, 1900, he also founded and edited "Noua Revistă Română" (which published articles by, among others, Nicolae Iorga, Ion Luca Caragiale, George Coşbuc, Lazăr Şăineanu, Ioan Nădejde, Ovid Densusianu, H. Sanielevici, and Garabet Ibrăileanu).