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Turull Fournols, Pau María (1878-1972)Alternative forms (other languages) Other forms
Barcelona (España) 1878 - Barcelona (España) 1972
Spanish writer and lawyer.
Born in 1878 in Barcelona. Son of the industrial Joan Turull i Comadran, and of the French painter Filomena Fournols Bayard; brother of Joan, Lluís, Isabel, Filomena, Fèlix and Maria Neus Tuull Fournols. Grandson of Pere Turull Sallent, founder of Caixa de Sabadell and one of the creators of the Catalan textile industry.
In 1918 he founded the magazina Messidor, where he will collaborate with Alfons Maseras. Moreover, he was an active propagndist en Sociedad de Naciones. He practised as a lawyer of Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación, based in street Marqués de Cubas, 13, of Madrid. He wrote the two poetic repertoires Remembrances (1916) and Eurítmia (1928), and the play of La Nueva Colombina (1942).
He passed away in 1972, at a sanatorium of his home town where he was, due to a nervous disease he had suffered since he was young, and finally developed into schizophrenia.