José María Arizmendiarrieta [SEP] place of death
José María Arizmendiarrieta
Father José María Arizmendiarrieta Madariaga (22 April 1915 – 29 November 1976) was a Spanish Catholic priest and founder of the Mondragón cooperative movement in the Basque Autonomous Community.
Biography.
Arizmendiarrieta, whose name is often shortened to "Arizmendi", was born in Barinaga, Markina-Xemein, Biscay, the eldest son of a family of modest means. He had lost an eye in a childhood accident so could not be a soldier. Instead he was a journalist for Basque language newspapers. His
by Father José María Arizmendiarrieta in 1943.
The current university was created in 1997 by the association of three existing educational cooperatives tied to Mondragon Corporation: "Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa “Jose Mª Arizmendiarrieta” S. Coop.", "ETEO S. Coop.", and "Irakasle Eskola S. Coop". Until then, these three educational cooperatives were affiliated with the University of the Basque Country. The new entity was set up as a non-profit cooperative university, an unprecedented organizational structure in the Spanish landscape of private