death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
perpignan -lrb- northern catalonia , france -rrb- 05 december 1949 josep irla i bosch tarragona -lrb- catalonia , spain -rrb- manuel serra i moret federal catalan action -lrb- 1922 -- 1930 -rrb- republican action of nationalist catalonia -lrb- 1930 -- 1932 -rrb- erc -lrb- 1932 -- republican 1949 -rrb- union -lrb- 1910 -- 1913 -rrb- 4th president of the catalan parliament 26 november 1882 october 15 , 1940 antoni rovira i virgili
 december 5 , 1949 antoni rovira i virgili
antoni rovira i virgili

antoni rovira i virgili -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 1882 -- 1949 -rrb- was a catalan spanish politician and journalist who was president of catalonia 's parliament in exile after the spanish civil war .
his term of office lasted from 1940 to 1949 .
the university of tarragona , reus and its surrounding area is named after him : universitat rovira i virgili .
