31 Facts About Jaume Aiguader

Jaume Aiguader i Miro was a Spanish medical doctor, writer, social activist, politician and Catalan nationalist.

Jaume Aiguader was one of the founders of the Republican Left of Catalonia political party.

Jaume Aiguader was Minister of Labor and Social Assistance in the government of Juan Negrin during the Spanish Civil War.

Jaime Aiguader Miro was born in Reus, Tarragona, Spain on 24 July 1882, son of Jaime Aiguade Serra and Rosa Miro Castells.

Jaume Aiguader's father owned a transport company, and the family was prosperous.

Jaume Aiguader studied in Reus, and showed a lively interest in current affairs.

Jaume Aiguader joined a group of young people, many with anarchist leanings, that included Juan Puig Ferreter.

Jaume Aiguader did not want to join the family business, and around 1900 moved to Barcelona to study medicine.

Jaume Aiguader wrote in Spanish for the anarchist periodical La Alarma, and in Catalan for the magazine Germinal, both published in Reus.

Jaume Aiguader ran a medical consultation in Barcelona in a working-class district, and sometimes waived his fees.

Jaume Aiguader graduated in 1907 and moved to Madrid for his doctoral studies, obtaining a degree as a doctor in 1909.

In 1912 Jaume Aiguader published a book on Social Aspects of Social Infections in Marriage.

Jaume Aiguader moved to Barcelona and continued to practice medicine.

Jaume Aiguader became involved with the Estat Catala founded by Francesc Macia, while retaining his USC membership.

Jaume Aiguader was held in the Modelo prison from November 1926 to May 1927.

In March 1931 Jaume Aiguader was a founder and director of the Izquierda Republicana de Cataluna.

Jaume Aiguader was among the candidates of the Esquerra who won the municipal elections of 12 April 1931.

Jaume Aiguader joined Macia and other leaders in proclaiming the Catalan Republic within the Iberian Federation on 14 April 1931, and was proclaimed mayor of Barcelona.

Jaume Aiguader was elected to the provisional government council representing Barcelona in May 1931.

Jaume Aiguader was elected to the national government as a deputy for Barcelona in the election of 28 June 1931.

At the second Esquerra party congress in June 1933, after the end of the dictatorship, Jaume Aiguader represented the Federation of Tarragona.

Jaume Aiguader was elected to represent Barcelona in the national government in the general elections of 19 November 1933.

Jaume Aiguader was again elected to represent Barcelona in the national parliament in the general election of 16 February 1936.

Jaume Aiguader was a minister without portfolio representing the Esquerra in Largo Caballero's second government from 4 November 1936 to 17 May 1937, based in Valencia.

Jaume Aiguader resigned in August 1938 in solidarity with the Basque Manuel de Irujo because he thought some of the government's decisions on war industries harmed the rights of Catalonia, and because he disagreed with the creation of special war tribunals.

Jaume Aiguader worked with organizations that assisted refugees in Paris.

Jaume Aiguader wrote a biography of Miquel Servet, which was published in 1945, after his death.

Jaime's younger brother Artemio Jaume Aiguader became a politician, and during the Civil War was interior cpuncelor of the Generalidad of Catalonia.

Jaume Aiguader helped with the creation of the Arnau de Vilanova publishing house, and founded and directed the Monografies mediques journal from 1926 to 1937.

Jaume Aiguader planned a Catalan-language scientific encyclopedia for workers and arts and crafts students, but for the "educated man".

Jaume Aiguader published the La Sageta series of books for a broader audience, in Catalan.