Gumersindo de Azcárate
Illustration — Gumersindo de Azcárate Gumersindo de Azcárate (1840, León - 1917, Madrid) was a Spanish philosopher, jurist and politician.
Also recorded as Gumersindo de Azcarate · Gumersindo José de Azcárate Menéndez
Gumersindo de Azcárate
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- Gumersindo de Azcárate was born on 13 January 1840. · León.
- Died
- Gumersindo de Azcárate died, sources differ on the date (on 15 April 1917 and on 15 December 1917). · Madrid.
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- Spain
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- writer · politician · philosopher · jurist · university teacher
- Education
- Universidad Central
- Languages
- Spanish
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Illustration — Gumersindo de Azcárate Gumersindo de Azcárate (1840, León - 1917, Madrid) was a Spanish philosopher, jurist and politician.
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Gumersindo de Azcárate studied at Universidad Central. The recorded working language is Spanish. Places of work recorded in the authority are Madrid. Employment is recorded with Universidad Central. Positions recorded include member of the Congress of Deputies and vocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas.
After law studies in Oviedo, he taught comparative law in Madrid since 1864 and represented León in the Cortes. In the 1870s, he joined Francisco Giner de los Ríos and Julián Sanz del Río to teach at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Institute of Free Teaching). De Azcárate was a leading representative of Krausismo, a philosophy based on the teachings of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, in law. In his works, which include Estudios económicos y sociales (1876), El self-government y la Monarquía doctrinaria (1877), Estudios filosóficos y políticos (1877) and Concepto de la Sociología (1876), he opposed excessive political centralism, proposed privatisation of nonessential governmental functions and studied models of parliamentary and decentralised government. In 1912, he was the co-founder of the Reformist Republican Party.
Gumersindo de Azcárate (1840–1917).
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