Miguel Junyent Rovira, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Miguel Junyent Rovira

Spanish politician

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1871

Place of Birth: Piera, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1936

Profession: lawyer, politician, librarian, jurist, banker

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Miguel Junyent Rovira (Catalan: Miquel Junyent i Rovira) (1871-1936) was a Spanish Catalan publisher and politician.
He is best known as director of El Correo Catalán, the newspaper he periodically owned and managed between 1903 and 1933.
As a politician he was active within Carlism; he remained the regional Catalan party leader in 1915-1916 and in 1919-1933.
He twice served in the Cortes, in 1907-1910 as member of the Congress of Deputies and in 1918-1919 as member of the Senate.
He is counted among moderate Carlists, who favored alliance with conservative Catalanists and opposed the violent faction within his party.