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Félix Pío de Aramburu y Zuloaga (Oviedo, Spain, May 5, 1848-Madrid, Spain, April 30, 1913) was a Spanish jurist and romantic poet.

Career Path
NBorn in the Asturian city of Oviedo on May 5, 1848, From his adolescence he showed signs of a marked literary inclination, while he was studying Law at the University of Oviedo. In his high school years he published his first literary works in the magazines "La Joven Asturias" and "La Tradición". He founded and directed "Revista Asturias" (1877-1883) where he published his scarce production in Asturian bable under the pseudonym "Sico Xuan de Sucu"; for the echoes of society he used that of "Saladino". Many of his poems and works also appeared in "The Galician and Asturian Illustration" (1879-1881); He also translated into Asturian some texts of bucolic Greek.

He finished his degree brilliantly in 1869, the following year he received his doctorate from the Central University of Madrid and began his life as a teacher, as an assistant at the University of Oviedo. Also at that time he was a member of the local Board of Primary Education. He studied Philosophy and Letters and Art. In 1876 he obtained, by competitive examination, the chair of extension of civil law and codes at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and the same year he managed to exchange it for that of History and Elements of Roman Law at the University of Oviedo.

Dean and vice-rector since 1886, in 1888 he was appointed rector, and he held office until 1905, when Fermín Canella succeeded him. Under his rectorate, the University Extension and the Annals of the University of Oviedo began. From 1887 he was a member of the Contentious-Administrative Court. He was director of the Archaeological Museum, secretary and professor of the School of Arts and Crafts of Oviedo, deputy director of the Economic Society of Friends of the Country and the Association of Breeders.

In 1887 he published "The new penal science" with which he obtained the Silver Medal at the Barcelona Universal Exposition of 1888. His fame as a penalist reached Italy, Germany and Russia.

From 1901 until his death he was a senator at the University of Oviedo. Counselor of Public Instruction (1902). In 1905 he settled in Madrid, where he was a professor at the School of Criminology, professor of Higher Law Studies at the Central University (1906), full member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (1910) and Judge of the Supreme Court. introduced in Spain the legal positivism of the Italian criminologists.

He died on April 30, 1913, and was buried in Ribadesella.

Literary Work
Most of his literary works were found in the Revista de Asturias, which first had the name "Ecos del Nalón", a high-toned magazine, of which he was director (between 1877 and 1883) and in which he popularized the pseudonym of Saladin; but also "The Galician and Asturian Illustration" published many of his poems and works.

His Monograph on Asturias was awarded by the Royal Academy of History with the Prize for Talent (1903).

Defender of Asturian culture, he also wrote dramas in verse entitled "Life for honor" (Oviedo, 1878), "Three stories" (Madrid, 1879), "A vote in favor of oral proceedings in civil matters" (Oviedo, 1890), "Stories of birds that look like men" (Oviedo, 1903), which is a compilation of poetry already published in the Revista de Asturias, Covadonga in the work Asturias by Octavio Bellmunt and Fermín Canella Secades, and a multitude of other works in other books and magazines.