Olózaga was born into a comfortable liberal family who lived in the Rioja Alavesa part of Northern Spain.

Olózaga's father was a Doctor of Medicine who worked for the city of Arnedo earning a comfortable wage.

Years later Olózaga would go on to say that he learned these reading from the Spanish Constitution of 1812, updating it as more articles where passed in parliamentary sessions.

[2] His Latin teacher was Marcelino Magro, a liberal cathedraticum who was originally from Cuenca, Spain but had taken refuge in Arnedo.

would stay with him for his entire life, such that in his death bed he still wrote a letter to his son remembering that moment.