Resurrección María de Azkue, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Resurrección María de Azkue

Basque writer

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1864

Place of Birth: Lekeitio, Basque Country, Spain

Date of Death: 09-Nov-1951

Profession: writer, composer, professor, Catholic priest, journalist, folklorist, orator, linguist, musicologist, lexicographer

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Resurrección María de Azkue (5 August 1864 – 9 November 1951) was an influential Basque priest, musician, poet, writer, sailor and academic.
He made several major contributions to the study of the Basque language and was the first head of the Euskaltzaindia, the Academy of the Basque Language.
In spite of some justifiable criticism of an imbalance towards unusual and archaic forms and a tendency to ignore the Romance influence on Basque, he is considered one of the greatest scholars of Basque to date.His full name is Resurrección de Jesús María de las Nieves Azkue Aberasturi Barrundia Uribarri but he is commonly known as Resurrección María de Azkue, R.
M.
Azkue or simply Azkue.