Emerencià Roig i Raventós

"Emerencià Roig i Raventós (Sitges, Garraf, 1881 - Barcelona, 1935) was a Catalan pharmacist and publicist. He was the son of the famous landscape painter Joan Roig i Soler, and the brother of the doctor and writer Josep Roig i Raventós. He studied pharmacy at the University of Barcelona and graduated in 1906. He cultivated the graphic arts, especially pen drawing, in which he produced notable illustrations of nautical and oceanographic affairs, which saw the light. accompanied by technical-literary studies of his on these matters. As a technical specialist, he also published interesting studies on the splendor of shipbuilding on the Catalan coast in the nineteenth century. Economic and agricultural affairs were also a favorite subject of study, especially everything related to reforestation and the ""Tree Festival."" His works on the Catalan lexicography of navigation and seafaring were compiled in specialized editions. In 1920 he won the prize of 2,000 pesetas offered by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans for the best vocabulary of seafaring voices. He collaborated in professional marine magazines, and especially in Catalunya Marítima de Barcelona; he also did it in La Marina Mercante and La Veu de Catalunya; the Blanes Collection; at L'Eco de Sitges in Sitges; to La Maynada. Wrote Chronicle of the Celebration of the Tree in Spain."