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Assessment:
EXERCISE YOUR MIND

Name:___Don Romeo C. Entes______ Course, Year & Section:__BSCE 2A_

Professor:____Prof. Jane V. Fuentes___Date:__04/12/2021___Score:________

Create a Curriculum Vitae (CV) of Rizal based on the discussion. You may
also use other sources in creating Rizal’s CV.
PERSONAL INFORMATION OF RIZAL

Full Name: Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda

Sex: Male
Place and Date of Birth: Calamba, Laguna, June 19,1861
Religion: Roman Catholic
Marital Status: Single
Address: Calle Real, Calamba, Laguna Philippines
Mother’s Name: Teodora Alonzo y Quintos
Father’s Name: Francisco Mercado Rizal

Background
I am a patriot, physician and a man of letters whose life and
literary works were an inspiration to the Philippine nationalist movement. I am
the son of a prosperous landowner and sugar planter of Chinese-Filipino
descent on the island of Luzon. My mother, Teodora Alonso, one of the most
highly educated women in the Philippines at that time, exerted a powerful
influence on my intellectual development and she is my first teacher.

Languages
-Filipino/Catalan/Italian/Ilokano/Spanish/Chinese/Malayan/
Dutch
- French/English/Portuguese/Latin/German/Russian
- Greek/Hebrew/Sanskrit/Arabic/Japanese/Swedish
Educational Background
- 1869-1872 Binan, Calamba under Maestro Justiniano
Aquino Cruz

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- 1872-1877 Ateneo Municipal, Manila (Elementary to

Highschool)
- 1877-1880 Ateneo Municipal. Manila (Land Surveying)
- 1880-1878 University of Santo Tomas. Manila (Philisophy,
Cosmology, Theodicy, Metaphysics, History of
Philosophy)
- 1878-1879 Preparatory Course in Medicine
- 1879-1882 Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
- 1882-1884 Universidad Central de Madrid [License in
Medicine. 1884] [PhD in Philosophy and Letters. 1885]
- 1885-1886 University of Paris
- 1886-1887 University of Heidelberg [PhD in
Ophthalmology. 1887]

I was educated at the Ateneo de Manila and the

University of Santo Tomas in Manila. In 1882, I went to
study medicine and liberal arts at the University of Madrid.
I soon became the leader of the small community of
Filipino students in Spain and committed myself to the
reform of Spanish rule in my home country, though I never
advocated Philippine independence. The chief enemy of
reform. In my eyes, was not Spain, which was going
through a profound revolution, but the Franciscan,
Augustinian and Dominican friars who held the country in
political and economic paralysis.
I continued medical studies in Paris and Heidelberg.
In 1886, I published my first novel in Spanish, Noli Me
Tangere, a passionate exposure of the evils of the friars
rule, comparable in its effect to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A sequel movement, El
Filibusterismo, 1891, established my reputation as the
leading spokesperson of the Philippine reform movement.
I annotated an edition in 1890 on Antonio Morga’s
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, which showed that the
native people of the Philippines had a long history before
the coming of the Spaniards.

1. Austin Craig was one of the first to write about Rizal’s

biography. One of his most notable works about Rizal was the
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Rizal family tree. Using Craig’s work, recreate Rizal’s family tree.
Search for the continuation of Rizal’s family tree and identify
notable individuals today who are related to Rizal.

Domigo Lam-co Inez de la Rosa Egerio Benigna

Ursua Ochoa

Josefa Francisco Bernarda

Mercado Monicha Manuel de Regina Ochoa
Quintos

Juan Cirila Clemente

Mercado Alejandro Mercado Lorenzo Brigida de
Alberto Quintos
Alonso

Francisco Manuel Gregorio Teodora

Rizal Mercado Alonso Juan Alonso Alonso Alonso

Saturnina Narcisa Lucia Jose Josefa Soledad

Mercado Mercado Mercado Mercado Mercado Mercado

Paciano Olympia Maria Conception Trinidad

Mercado Mercado Mercado Mercado Mercado

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