Julio de Urquijo e Ibarra

Julio de Urquijo Count of Urquijo
Born	Julio Gabriel de Urquijo e Ibarra 1871 Deusto, Spain
Died	1950 San Sebastián, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	scientist
Known for	linguist
Political party	Comunión Tradicionalista

Julio de Urquijo e Ibarra, Count of Urquijo (1871-1950), in Basque self-styled as Julio Urkixokoa,^[1] 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 setting up numerous vascologist institutions, especially Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos (1907) and Sociedad de Estudios Vascos (1918). 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.