Jon Juaristi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jon Juaristi
Occupation	Linguist
Date Of Birth	Mar 6, 1951(1951-03-06)
Age	73
Birthplace	Bilbao
Country	Spain
Birth City	Basque Country
Horoscope	Pisces

Jon Juaristi Biography

Jon Juaristi is one of the most popular and richest Linguist who was born on March 6, 1951 in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. Jon Juaristi Linacero (born in Bilbao in the year 1951) is an Spanish writer, poet, and translator for Spanish and Basque as well as an avowed past ETA militant. The moment he is residing in Madrid.

His critique of ethnic nationalism as well as its inventing and manipulating of myths, especially for Basque countryalism has garnered media exposure through numerous essays, articles and speeches. Juaristi’s stand against terrorism and his solidarity with the victims of ETA violent acts, were recognized by the creation by the Foro Ermua (Forum of Ermua currently an anti-terrorism conservative organization with its roots to Basque left) Basque left) in 1997. In the past decade, he was described in a variety of interviews with the mass media as”a “Spanish nationalist”.” Since the close of the 1980s, because of his vehement criticism regarding Basque separatist violence his life is under threat by ETA. In 1999, at the close of the year the university he attended was closed in Deusto along with the Basque country following an ETA declaration that it was going to suspend its ceasefire that was in place the previous year and after being informed of the seriousness of threats to his life made by the ETA group.

Juaristi’s poetic voice is influenced by the Basque poet (and his close friend) Gabriel Aresti, and by the Basque-born, Spanish-writing writers Miguel de Unamuno and Blas de Otero [es] —as well as by the irony of the poet and Anglo-American essayist W. H. Auden. His poetry frequently evokes the mood of the Bilbao of his childhood and youth, and its tone is disillusioned, bitter, urban and intelligent.

The year was 1980 when he joined himself to in 1980, he joined the Communist Party of Spain during the process of unification to Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE), which led to the formation of a new social-democratic party which was adamantly opposed to violence. The group disbanded in 1986 dissatisfied when EE didn’t form any alliance with Spain’s Socialist Workers (PSOE) (PSOE) following elections in the Basque Autonomous Community elections of 1986. In 1987, Juaristi joined PSOE. Then, he wrote the truth in his writings, stating that he was so because of “ethical imperatives” as a result of an attack on the extremist separatist “Mendeku” group against the “Casa del Pueblo” (PSOE local chapter) in Portugalete. Many PSOE members were burnt to death in the incident.

Jon Juaristi Net Worth

Jon Juaristi is one of the richest Linguist from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jon Juaristi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the following years in the course of University in the following year, he joined an ETA-related minority workerist organization that was part of ETA which was called ETA VI Asamblea that was merged in 1973 and joined the Trotskyist Liga Comunista Revolucionaria (LCR) as its Basque branch. After being a target of police the group retreated from his home city to pursue studies in Romance Philology in Seville, then returning at the University of Deusto, where was awarded his doctorate. In Deusto the university, he was exiled from the university in 1972 “for agitation” but was admitted in the following year. In that time, he endured several times being in jail in connection with “minor offences”, and was found guilty to The Tribunal of Public Order.

In 1974, he quit LCR and political leftism in a nutshell and committed himself entirely to his academic pursuits.

He has occupied the chair of Spanish Philology at the University of the Basque Country, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University, and has been titular professor of the Chair of Contemporary Thought of the Cañada Blanch Foundation at the University of Valencia. Juaristi also worked as a lecturer and researcher in Austin and at El Colegio de México. He directed the National Library of Spain from 1999 to 2001, and then left that position to direct the Cervantes Institute until his replacement after the Socialist triumph of March 14, 2004.

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