"The Philippine National Hero"
Biography
Name: Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
Birthplace: Calamba, Laguna
Birthday: June 19, 1861
Died: December 30, 1896 (aged 35
Height: 4'11"
Mother: Teodora Alonzo Realonda de Quintos
Father: Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado
Francisco and Teodora's children:
- Saturina (1850–1913)
- Paciano (1851–1930)
- Narcisa (1852–1939)
- Olympia (1855-1887)
- Lucia (1857–1919)
- María (1859–1945)
- José (1861–1896)
- Concepción (1862–1865)
- Josefa (1865–1945)
- Trinidad (1868–1951)
- Soledad (1870–1929)
Education
Bachelor of Arts at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila
Medicine and Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas
Degree of Licentiate in Medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid(Madrid, Spain)
Second doctorate at the University of Heidelberg
*Considered a polyglot because he mastered more than 22 languages
- Catalan
- Chinese
- English
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin
- Malay
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Sanskrit
- Spanish
- Tagalog
- and other native dialects
also Arabic
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