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José Rizal

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Also known as Dimasalang, Laong Laan, José P. Rizal, José Protasio Rizal

Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)

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José Rizal was a writer, linguist, ophthalmologist, and painter born in Calamba in 1861. He was educated at Ateneo de Manila University, University of Santo Tomas, Complutense University of Madrid, and Heidelberg University. His notable works include *El filibusterismo*, *Mi último adiós*, *Noli me tangere*, and *The social cancer*. He wrote in Spanish, Tagalog, and English.

Rizal was a citizen of the Captaincy General of the Philippines and was married to Josephine Bracken. He had a sibling named Paciano Rizal. He died in Manila on December 30, 1896, due to a gunshot wound resulting from capital punishment. He is described in sources such as the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia.

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Person · Open Library

Born
19 Jun 1861
Died
30 Dec 1896
Works
170

Top works

  • Publications
  • Noli me tangere
  • Lolo José
  • The social cancer
  • Huling pahimakas

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Philippines
Active from
1994

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
68
Total plays
126

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,569x

  2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,989x

  3. Efficient pseudopotentials for plane-wave calculations

    · 1991 · cited 15,143x

  4. trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

    · 2009 · cited 12,434x

  5. 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

    · 2016 · cited 11,113x

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Quotes

  • “In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.”
  • “To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.”
  • “No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.”
  • “I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess... but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side — mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.”
  • “Each one writes history according to his convenience.”
  • “Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest!”

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to José Rizal, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Artwork

Untitled

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Encyclopedic overview

José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda ( Spanish: [xoˈse riˈsal, -ˈθal], Tagalog: [hoˈse ɾiˈsal]; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered a national hero of the Philippines, although no official proclamation formally declares him as such. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement in the 1880s, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.

By the early 1890s, amidst the Calamba land dispute, Rizal grew more separatist in his stance, conflicting with several colleagues in the Propaganda Movement. On July 6, 1892, a few days after establishing the secret society La Liga Filipina within Manila, Rizal was arrested by Spanish authorities for alleged possession of a seditious document, being banished to Dapitan in the island of Mindanao. During his exile, Rizal met Josephine Bracken, an Irish woman who later became his common-law wife.

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