Pablo de Azcárate, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pablo de Azcárate

Spanish diplomat

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1890

Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Date of Death: 13-Dec-1971

Profession: writer, politician, jurist, diplomat, historian, university teacher, full professor

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Pablo de Azcárate y Flórez (1890 – 1971) was a Spanish diplomat.
He was born in Madrid.
During the 1920s he worked in Minorities Section of the League of Nations Secretariat.
During the Spanish Civil War, Azcárate served as Ambassador of the Spanish Republican government to London.
Following the British recognition of the Franco government in early 1939, he went into exile in Switzerland.
From 1946 onward, he was attached to the UN.
In 1948-1952 he served as secretary of the Consular Truce Commission in Jerusalem on behalf of the UN.
Azcárate died in Geneva in 1971. Azcárate's son, Manuel Azcárate (1916–1998), became one of the leaders of the Spanish Communist Party.