[3] He then went to the University of Oviedo, where he obtained bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Letters in 1867 (excellent); jurisprudence in 1869 (passed), and Civil and Canon Law, a career in which he graduated in 1870 (approved), at the age of 19.
[2] He published most of these projects in Revista de Asturias,[4] which he also used to spread the work of the great German economists of the time such as Adolph Wagner and Albert Schäffte.
[1] As an economist, Buylla very early became prominent in the defense of the Krausist postulates that Gumersindo de Azcárate and José Manuel Piernas Hurtado [es] had opposed in favor of the then hitherto hegemonic liberal tradition.
[2] During the solemn opening ceremony of the 1879–80 academic year, for which he was commissioned to prepare the inaugural lecture, he publicly defended socialism by disseminating for the first time in Spain the doctrine of German academic socialism (relied on the work of the Italian Vito Cusumano, Le Scuole Economiche della Germania), warning from the position of Spanish Krausism, whose criticisms of orthodox economics were founded and which resulted in a dangerous statism contrary to economic freedom.
[2] Buylla continued this goal of making contemporary German economic thought known, translating in 1885, together with his friend and inseparable companion Adolfo Posada, Albert Schäffle's The Quintessence of Socialism (1875), and in 1894 a good part of the Handbuch der politischen Öekonomie (Handbook of political economy) directed by Schönberg, this time alone.
[2] From this experience, the social problem became the preferred object of his intellectual activity, becoming one of the earliest defenders of state intervention through coercive labor laws.
[2] For this reason, together with the good relations with Asturian unionism, Buylla was called in 1902, together with Adolfo Posada and the journalist Luis Morote, to collaborate in the project of creating a Labor Institute that the liberal politician José Canalejas intended to integrate into the Ministry of Agriculture that he ran.
[2] An untimely change of government prevented its parliamentary approval, but a year later its spirit was collected by the conservative statesman Eduardo Dato at the Institute of Social Reforms.
[2] Both Buylla and Posada were invited in 1904 to direct two sections of the new organization, and despite their reluctance to leave Oviedo, the fact that the presidency had been entrusted to the Krausista Gumersindo de Azcárate was decisive for their acceptance.
[2] Of republican ideology,[4] Buylla did not want to join the reformist party, a political project sponsored by his friends and coreligionists Melquíades Álvarez and Gumersindo de Azcárate, and remained the leading figure in Asturias of the republican-socialist conjunction.
[2] In 1886, the Asturian teachers Buylla and Adolfo González Posada accompanied Francisco Giner de los Ríos and other members of the ILE on a pedagogical excursion that included a visit to England, where they were able to observe the successes and advantages of the English educational system, which had integrated and accepted sport at university level; Buylla thus promoted the same system in Asturias, which helped develop football in the region, both in prestige and in followers.
[2] His remains were transferred to Oviedo for his solemn burial in the Salvador cemetery,[3] in an event attended by representatives of the main Asturian institutions, as well as labor organizations.