AZCARATE, GUMERSINDO ), Spanish politician, was born at Leon, Spain, Jan. 13 184o. Educated at the universities of Oviedo and Madrid, in 1868 he was appointed assistant professor of comparative jurisprudence at the Uni versity of Madrid, and four years later became professor. In 1875 he resigned rather than submit to the famous Orovio decree limiting the liberty of the chair. He was, however, reinstated six years later and became one of the group headed by Francisco Giner, to which Spain owes most of its up-to-date educational institutions. From 1868 he represented, almost continuously, Leon, in the Cortes, as a moderate Republican. He had learned by painful experience that the attempt to set up a republic in a country where there was no genuine Republican party could result only in anarchy and military dictatorship. He, therefore, expressed his approval of the reformist evolution toward mon archism initiated by Melquiados Alvarez, but, upon his defeat as a deputy, he proved the strength of his principles by refusing a seat as senator for life. After the Barcelona outbreak of 1909, he kept apart from the violent section of his party. His position was less that of a leader than of a man whose personal character gave a certain dignity to the anti-dynastic parties. He died at Madrid Dec. 14 1917.