Junqueiro, Abilio Manuel Guerra (1850–1923)

Portuguese poet. His best-known works are Os simples 1896, full of vigorous, radical sentiments about the state of the nation, and a declamatory patriotic piece, A patria 1890, written against British pretensions in Portuguese Africa.

On establishment of the Portuguese republic 1910, Junqueiro was sent as an envoy to Bern, Switzerland. In his last years he turned to Catholicism, a religion he had once bitterly attacked, for example in A velhice do padre eterno 1885.