It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945, in one of a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library.
Na njegovo izoblikovanje kot znanstvenika so posebno vplivali Mihailo Petrović Alas (1868-1943), Milutin Milanković (1879-1958) in Anton Bilimović (1879-1970).