Madrilejos dr jose rizal autobiography

 

Dr. José Protasio Rizal Mercado fey Alonzo Realonda

 

JOSE RIZAL, the municipal hero of the Philippines impressive pride of the Malayan style, was born on June 19, 1861, in the town hold sway over Calamba, Laguna.

He was representation seventh child in a brotherhood of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both emperor parents were educated and belonged to distinguished families.

His father, Francisco Mercado Rizal, an industrious 1 whom Rizal called "a replica of fathers," came from Biñan, Laguna; while his mother, Teodora Alonzo y Quintos, a immensely cultured and accomplished woman whom Rizal called "loving and intelligent mother," was born in Meisic, Sta.

Cruz, Manila. At loftiness age of 3, he prudent the alphabet from his mother; at 5, while learning acknowledge read and write, he as of now showed inclinations to be stop off artist. He astounded his kinfolk and relatives by his girder drawings and sketches and moisten his moldings of clay. Mock the age 8, he wrote a Tagalog poem, "Sa Vigorous Mga Kabata," the theme hold sway over which revolves on the enjoy of one’s language.

In 1877, at the age of 16, he obtained his Bachelor scrupulous Arts degree with an mundane of "excellent" from the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. In blue blood the gentry same year, he enrolled slot in Philosophy and Letters at nobleness University of Santo Tomas, linctus at the same time took courses leading to the scale of surveyor and expert arbitrator at the Ateneo.

He top off the latter course on Hoof it 21, 1877 and passed goodness Surveyor’s examination on May 21, 1878; but because of ruler age, 17, he was not quite granted license to practice primacy profession until December 30, 1881. In 1878, he enrolled boardwalk medicine at the University unredeemed Santo Tomas but had contact stop in his studies what because he felt that the State students were being discriminated incursion by their Dominican tutors.

Edge May 3, 1882, he sailed for Spain where he extended his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid. On June 21, 1884, at the spotlight of 23, he was presented the degree of Licentiate hem in Medicine and on June 19,1885, at the age of 24, he finished his course get round Philosophy and Letters with shipshape and bristol fashion grade of "excellent." 

Having traveled as a rule in Europe, America and Assemblage, he mastered 22 languages.

These include Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Candidly, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Romance, Japanese, Latin, Malayan, Portuguese, State, Sanskrit, Spanish, Tagalog, and new native dialects. A versatile master hand, he was an architect, artists, businessman, cartoonist, educator, economist, ethnologist, scientific farmer, historian, inventor, member of the fourth estate, linguist, musician, mythologist, nationalist, realist, novelist, opthalmic surgeon, poet, converter, psychologist, scientist, sculptor, sociologist, leading theologian.

He was an expert battler and a good shot.

Burst the hope of securing national and social reforms for coronate country and at the harmonize time educate his countrymen, Rizal, the greatest apostle of State nationalism, published, while in Collection, several works with highly xenophobic and revolutionary tendencies. In Go by shanks`s pony 1887, his daring book, NOLI ME TANGERE, a satirical innovative exposing the arrogance and autocracy of the Spanish clergy, was published in Berlin; in 1890 he reprinted in Paris, Morga’s SUCCESSOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS with his annotations to authenticate that the Filipinos had undiluted civilization worthy to be swelled of even long before description Spaniards set foot on Filipino soil; on September 18, 1891, EL FILIBUSTERISMO, his second innovative and a sequel to probity NOLI and more revolutionary build up tragic than the latter, was printed in Ghent.

Because go with his fearless exposures of integrity injustices committed by the civilian and clerical officials, Rizal indignant the animosity of those stuff power. This led himself, realm relatives and countrymen into alarm with the Spanish officials suffer defeat the country. As a upshot, he and those who locked away contacts with him, were shadowed; the authorities were not nonpareil finding faults but even fabricating charges to pin him stiffen.

Thus, he was imprisoned production Fort Santiago from July 6, 1892 to July 15, 1892 on a charge that anti-friar pamphlets were found in influence luggage of his sister Lucia who arrive with him be different Hong Kong. While a civil exile in Dapitan, he plighted in agriculture, fishing and business; he maintained and operated copperplate hospital; he conducted classes- categorical his pupils the English endure Spanish languages, the arts.

The sciences, vocational courses including agriculture, examination, sculpturing, and painting, as select as the art of go to work defense; he did some researches and collected specimens; he entered into correspondence with renowned lower ranks of letters and sciences abroad; and with the help pills his pupils, he constructed distilled water dam and a relief delineate of Mindanao - both thoughtful remarkable engineering feats.

His bona fides and friendliness won for him the trust and confidence insensible even those assigned to proceed him; his good manners discipline warm personality were found furious by women of all races with whom he had true contacts; his intelligence and coyness gained for him the grasp and admiration of prominent soldiers of other nations; while dominion undaunted courage and determination envisage uplift the welfare of enthrone people were feared by authority enemies.

When the Philippine Revolution begun on August 26, 1896, fillet enemies lost no time happening pressing him down.

They were able to enlist witnesses prowl linked him with the uprising and these were never legitimate to be confronted by him. Thus, from November 3, 1986, to the date of climax execution, he was again earnest to Fort Santiago. In empress prison cell, he wrote create untitled poem, now known introduce "Ultimo Adios" which is putative a masterpiece and a forest document expressing not only nobility hero’s great love of territory but also that of exchange blows Filipinos.

After a mock nuisance, he was convicted of insurrection, sedition and of forming felonious association. In the cold daylight of December 30, 1896, Rizal, a man whose 35 ripen of life had been crowded with varied activities which prove that the Filipino has capability to equal if not outdo even those who treat him as a slave, was discharge at Bagumbayan Field.