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José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
a doctor, farmer, naturalist), writer, visual artist, athlete (martial arts, fencing, and pistol shooting), musician, and social scientist.
June 19 1861 -December 30 1896
Birthplace;
Calamba,Laguna
Jose Rizal came from a wealthy family in Calamba, Laguna, Considered one of the largest families in those times, the 13-member-family consisted of his father Francisco Mercado II, his mother Teodora Alonso Realonda, himself, nine sisters and one brother.
Cultural Similarity
Dr. jose rizal wants to advocate freedom of speech, Equal rights same as me.
Pepe has a brave heart and never dying motivation so as me
I like to write poem and stories like pepe.
RIZAL’S EDUCATION
Dr.Jose rizal's first teacher is his mother.Private tutors taught the young rizal spanish and latin.
when he was 11 years old, Rizal entered Ateneo de Manila and earned excellent marks. He also takes Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas.
upon learning that his mother was going blind Rizal opted to study ophthalmology at the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery however he was not able to finish it because he became politically isolated by adversaries among the faculty and clergy who demanded that he assimilate to their system.
In order to have a better education he leave the country without the knowledge of his parents. Rizal earned a Licentiate in Medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid, where he also took courses in philosophy and literature. He also attended the University of Paris and, in 1887, completed his eye specialization course at the University of Heidelberg
Dr. Jose Rizal' grave
After execution by firing squad, his remains were quickly buried by Spanish authorities in a secret makeshift grave in Paco Cemetery intentionally mismarked to mislead and discourage martyrdom. However, found by admirers, they erected a cross and simply inscribed it with the date of his death
He was exhumed several years later, cremated and the receptacle kept at the family home
Rizal was a polymath, skilled in both science and the arts. He painted, sketched, and made sculptures and woodcarving. He was a prolific poet, essayist, and novelist whose most famous works were his two novels, Noli Me Tángere and its sequel, El filibusterismo.These social commentaries during the Spanish colonization of the country formed the nucleus of literature that inspired peaceful reformists and armed revolutionaries alike. Rizal was also a polyglot, conversant in twenty-two languages.
Rizal was a polyglot conversant in at least ten languages. He was a prolific poet, essayist, diarist, correspondent, and novelist
Rizal was a leader in the Propagandist Movement. To buttress his defense of the native’s pride and dignity as people, Rizal wrote three significant essays while abroad: The Philippines a Century hence, the Indolence of the Filipinos and the Letter to the Women of Malolos. These writings were his brilliant responses to the vicious attacks against the Indio and his culture.
In 1889 he established a biweekly newspaper in Barcelona, La Solidaridad (Solidarity), which became the principal organ of the Propaganda Movement, having audiences both in Spain and in the islands. Its contributors included Rizal; Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt, an Austrian geographer and ethnologist whom Rizal had met in Germany; and Marcelo del Pilar, a reformminded lawyer. Del Pilar was active in the antifriar movement in the islands until obliged to flee to Spain in 1888, where he became editor of La Solidaridad and assumed leadership of the Filipino community in Spain.
Two Interesting Facts about Dr. Jose Rizal
LOLO JOSE WAS A COMIC ARTIST
JOSE RIZAL USED MARIJUANA
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
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