Full name of jose rizal
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José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
"Laong Laan" redirects here. For the railway station, see Laon Laan station.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mercado and the second or maternal family name is Realonda.
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| Born | José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda[1] June 19, 1861[2] Calamba, La Laguna, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire[2] |
| Died | December 30, 1896(1896-12-30) (aged 35)[3] Bagumbayan, Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire[3] |
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
| Resting place | Rizal Monument, Manila |
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| Other names | Pepe, Jose (nicknames)[4][5] |
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| Movement | Propaganda Movement |
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José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda[7] (Spanish:[xoˈseriˈsal,-ˈθal], Tagalog:[hoˈseɾiˈsal]; June 19, 1861
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Rizal in Focus
Jose Rizal: A Biographical Sketch
BY TEOFILO H. MONTEMAYOR
JOSE RIZAL, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh child in a family of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were educated and belonged to distinguished families.
His father, Francisco Mercado Rizal, an industrious farmer whom Rizal called "a model of fathers," came from Biñan, Laguna; while his mother, Teodora Alonzo y Quintos, a highly cultured and accomplished woman whom Rizal called "loving and prudent mother," was born in Meisic, Sta. Cruz, Manila. At the age of 3, he learned the alphabet from his mother; at 5, while learning to read and write, he already showed inclinations to be an artist. He astounded his family and relatives by his pencil drawings and sketches and by his moldings of clay. At the age 8, he wrote a Tagalog poem, "Sa Aking Mga Kabata," the theme of which revolves on the love of one’s language. In 1877, at the age of 16, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts de
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Having traveled extensively in Europe, America and Asia, he mastered 22 languages. These include Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malayan, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Tagalog, and other native dialects. A versatile genius, he was an architect, artists, businessman, cartoonist, educator, economist, ethnologist, scientific farmer, historian, inventor, journalist, linguist, musician, mythologist, nationalist, naturalist, novelist, opthalmic surgeon, poet, propagandist, psychologist, scientist, sculptor, sociologist, and theologian.
He was an expert swordsman and a good shot. In the hope of securing political and social reforms for his country and at the same time educate his countrymen, Rizal, the greatest apostle of Filipino natiofaults but even fabricating charges to pin him down. Thus, he was imprisoned in Fort Santiago from July 6, 1892 to July 15, 1892 on a charge that anti-friar pamphlets were found in the luggage of his sister Lucia who arrive with him from Hong Kong. While a political exile in Dapitan,
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