Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro

Died in 1923

Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro was born in 1850 in Freixo de Espada à Cinta, in Trás-os-Montes, and lost his mother at the age of three. Enrolled in theology at Coimbra at sixteen, he switched to law and took his degree in 1873. Secretary to a civil governor in the Azores and then in Viana do Castelo, he was elected deputy in 1878, and his verse pamphlets against the monarchy and the Church made him one of the most popular poets of his time. The Republic made him its representative in Bern. He died in Lisbon on 7 July 1923.

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PoetryA Morte de D. JoãoAbílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro · 1874not translated into EnglishLiterature