Name: Aressa Venice P.

Tolentino Activity 2

Teacher: Ms. Anjanette D. Macaraeg

Biography of Dr. Jose Rizal

Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal was born in the town of Calamba, Laguna
on 19th June 1861. The second son and the seventh among the
eleven children of Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso.

With his mother as his first teacher, he began his early education
at home and continued in Binan, Laguna. He entered a Jesuit-run
Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1872 and obtained a bachelor's
degree with highest honors in 1876. He studied medicine at the
University of Santo Tomas but had to stop because he felt that the
Filipino students were being discriminated by their Dominican
tutors. He went to Madrid at Universidad Central de Madrid and in
1885 at the age of 24, he finished his course in Philosophy and
Letters with a grade of "Excellent".

He took graduate studies in Paris, France & Heidelberg, Germany.

He also studied painting, sculpture, he learned to read and write in
at least 10 languages.

Rizal was a polymath, skilled in both science and the arts.

He painted, sketched, and made sculptures and woodcarving.
He was a prolific poet, essayist, and novelist whose most famous
works were his two novels, Noli Me Tángere and its sequel, El
filibusterismo