page_title: Julio de Urquijo e Ibarra
section_title: Vascólogo: own contribution
hierarchical_section_title: Julio de Urquijo e Ibarra / Vascólogo: own contribution
caption_attribution_description: Euskara: Euskaltzaindiako euskaltzain batzuk 1927an ospaturiko ohiko biltzar batean zehar. Ezkerretik eskuinera, zutik: Orixe, Jean Elizalde, Seber Altube, Julio Urkixo etaErramun Olabide. Eserita: Juan Bautista Eguzkitza, Bonifazio Etxegarai, Resurreccion Maria Azkue eta Georges Lakonbe. English: Some members of the Basque Language Academy in 1927 during an ordinary meeting. Français&#160;: Certains membres de l'Euskaltzaindia en 1927 lors d'une réunion.
context_page_description: Julio de Urquijo e Ibarra, Count of Urquijo, in Basque self-styled as Julio Urkixokoa, was a Basque linguist, cultural activist, and a Spanish Carlist politician. As a Traditionalist deputy he twice served in the Cortes, during the terms of 1903-1905 and 1931-1933, though the climax of his political activity fell on the late Restoration period. As a scientist he was the moving spirit behind settting up numerous vascologist institutions, especially Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos and Sociedad de Estudios Vascos. Himself he specialized in Basque paremiology and bibliography. He opposed academy-driven unification of Basque dialects and preferred to wait until standard Basque emerges naturally.
context_section_description: Though one scholar suggested that Urquijo's own production is divided into 4 phases distinguished mostly by institutional milestones, other works do not mention any specific change or evolution of his cultural work, except that he wrote only single pieces prior to 1907 and after 1940. His written contribution is extensive though not massive and covers some 300 titles, including books, articles, reviews, booklets and newspaper items, with most prominent works written between 1922 and 1929.
  The key feature of Urquijo's work is its great multifariousness, as his contribution falls into a number of areas: general linguistics, comparative linguistics, paremiology, onomastics, ancient songs and stories, origin of the Basque language, folklore, archaeology, heraldry, etymology, music, literature including poetry, invented universal languages and commercial history of Bilbao, not to count single pieces representing odd and isolated subjects. Another fundamental characteristic is scholarly discipline, especially as opposed to sometimes extravagant and highly hypothetical theories pursued by other vascophiles of the early 20th century.
  Though initially Urquijo displayed interest in some very specific topics like evolution of the Sare dialect, over time he specialized in two areas. The first one was bibliography, which suited his systematic nature and together with periodical accounts supplied to RIEV made him emerge as "mayor bibliografo vasco". Another one was paremiology, always generating his particular interest and resulting in a number of publications. Some works add also dialects and their changes over time as another of his preferred subjects.
  In terms of own writings, Urquijo's contribution was incomparable to production of Azkue, especially that his knowledge and fluency in Basque was far inferior. Contemporary scholars summarise his work as discreet and modest but effective, possibly constrained by his excess self-criticism; they rush to underline that in general, apart from his scholarly production and organizational achievements, Urquijo's contribution consisted to a huge extent of discussion and friendly critique. Some vascólogos even consider his polemical effort as one of key threads of his entire activity, pointing that he did not refrain from and indeed willingly engaged in always amicable disputes with Eleizalde, Baroja and many others.
caption: Urquijo (2nd row, 2nd from R) in Euskaltzaindia, 1927
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