Joaquín Azpiazu Zulaica
Joaquín Azpiazu Zulaica SJ (23 October 1887 – 30 April 1953) was a Basque Roman Catholic priest and legal scholar from the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
Biography
He did his first studies at the Marianists of San Sebastián and later with the Jesuits of Tudela. He entered the Company of Jesus in 1902 and was ordained a priest in 1915. At the same time, he studied at the University of Deusto, where he received his doctorate in philosophy and literature in 1913 and in law in 1918. In 1918, he was appointed professor of political economy and finance at the University of Deusto. In the 1936 Basque Country Day, celebrated in Bermeo, he gave the lecture Euskera zarraren apurtxoak. In 1936, he was appointed professor of political economics and finance at the University of Deusto.
In 1926, he left Deusto to go to Madrid, where he founded the magazine Fomento Social. In 1931, he returned to the University of Deusto, where he was a professor of professional economic morality. From his chair he defended the right to property and work from the position of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church. He collaborated, among other periodicals, with the Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos and Yakintza.
During the Spanish Civil War, he supported the nationalist side and after the war he published several treatises on economic morality that became a reference for Francisco Franco's government. He was a member of the Spanish National Research Council and of the Supreme Council for the Protection of Minors. In 1949 he was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He was awarded the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise.
Joaquín Azpiazu Zulaica died in Valladolid.
Works
- Problemas Sociales de Actualidad (1929)
- El Derecho de Propiedad (1930)
- La actualidad monetaria española (1930)
- Patronos y Obreros (1933)
- El Estado Corporativo (1934)
- Jóvenes y Juventudes (1934)
- La Política Corporativa (1935)
- Orientaciones Cristianas del Fuero del Trabajo (1939).
- El Estado Católico (1939)
- Manual de Acción Católica (1941)
- Los Precios Abusivos ante la Moral (1941)
- Moral Profesional Económica (1942)
- La Moral del Hombre de Negocios (1944)
- Vida del P. Jesús Ballesta, S. J. (1946)
- La Encíclica Quadragesimo Anno (1946)
- Fundamentos de Sociología Económica-cristiana (1949)
- Direcciones Pontificias (1950)
- Directrices Sociales de la Iglesia Católica (1950)
- La Acción Social del Sacerdote (1951)
