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"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:
  1. Saturina (1850–1913)
  2. Paciano (1851–1930)
  3. Narcisa  (1852–1939)
  4. Olympia (1855-1887)
  5. Lucia (1857–1919)
  6. María (1859–1945)
  7. José (1861–1896)
  8. Concepción (1862–1865)
  9. Josefa (1865–1945)
  10. Trinidad (1868–1951) 
  11. 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

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