Calle de Benito Gutiérrez
Recalls Benito Gutiérrez Fernández, a nineteenth-century jurist from Burgos, professor of Civil Law at the Central University and member of the Commission on Codes.
Benito Gutiérrez Fernández came from a humble family in Burgos and rose to the professorship and offices where the country’s civil life was ordered. Born in 1826, he earned his doctorate in Law while still a soldier, won a chair at the Central University of Madrid and joined the Commission on Codes, tasked with preparing the great legislation of the age. He left a treatise on Civil Law that served as a manual for several generations of students.
He was also deputy and senator for his native Burgos, deputy governor of the Mortgage Bank and an academician. In 1885, the year of his death, he was still taking part in the commission that shaped the Commercial Code.
The street lives in Argüelles, on the stretch descending from Calle de la Princesa to the Paseo del Pintor Rosales, with the treetops of the Parque del Oeste showing at the far end.