Victoriano Huici González de Villazón (1860-1938)

Abstract

A hundred years on from the publication of the Etxarri-Aranatz priest Victoriano Huici’s Manual de Gramática Bascongada (Manual of Basque Grammar), this work has been prepared as homage to its author, describing and informing as to the nature of his personality. The Manual represents the first Basque grammar written by a Navarran author. Huici’s work was heterogeneous and wide-ranging. He taught Latin to students. He worked as priest in seven Navarran villages. He joined the Jesuits and led spiritual exercises, popular missions and preached to soldiers in Africa. No longer in the Jesuits, he stayed in Cuba for three or four years. He died in the village of his birth, Etxarri-Aranatz, on the 19th of September 1938.