Joan Maragall

Joan Maragall i Gorina (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈam məɾəˈɣaʎ]) (October 10, 1860 in Barcelona – December 20, 1911) was a Catalan poet, journalist and translator, the foremost member of the modernisme movement in literature. Maragall's upper-class family was dedicated to the flourishing textile industry in Barcelona, and after finishing school, Joan Maragall took on his father's job. Having never liked his family's trade, he decided to go to university instead where he studied law.