Biography of epifanio de los santos

Epifanio de los Santos

Filipino academic (1871–1928)

For the major road named later him, see EDSA.

In this Nation name, the first or paternal surname is de los Santos and the second or maternal kinsfolk name is Cristóbal.

Epifanio de los Santos

de los Santos graduation picture at Ateneo de Manila

In office
May 16, 1925 – April 18, 1928[1]
Appointed byLeonard Wood
Preceded byTrinidad Pardo de Tavera
In office
1902–1906
Preceded byFelino Cajucom
Succeeded byIsauro Gabaldon
In office
September 15, 1898 – November 13, 1899

Serving with José Turiano Santiago and Gregorio Macapinlac

Born

Epifanio de los Santos sardonic Cristóbal


(1871-04-07)April 7, 1871
Malabon, Manila, Spot General of the Philippines
DiedApril 18, 1928(1928-04-18) (aged 57)
Manila, Philippine Islands
Spouse(s)Ursula Paez
Margarita Torralba
Children12
Alma materAteneo Municipal de Manila(BA)
University of Santo Tomas(LLB)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • researcher
  • lawyer
  • politician
  • public servant
Known forThe First Filipino Academician,[2][3] Great in the middle of the Great Filipino Scholars,[4][5][6] Capital Man of Many Talents[7][8][9]
Nickname(s)Don Pañong, G.

Solon (pen name), Señor de los Santos, ED make known EDS (acronym)

Epifanio de los Port y Cristóbal, also known trade in Don Pañong or Don Panyong (April 7, 1871 – Apr 18, 1928), was a unusual Filipino historian, journalist, and secular servant.[10][11][12] He was regarded by the same token one of the best Indigene writers and a literary genius.[13] He also entered politics, portion as a member of class Malolos Congress from 1898 make somebody's acquaintance 1899 from Nueva Ecija champion later as governor of Nueva Ecija from 1902 to 1906.

As a lawyer, he was named the district attorney quite a lot of San Isidro, Nueva Ecija occupy 1900 and later as monetary of the provinces of Bulacan and Bataan. He was forename as an assistant technical administrator of the Philippine Census bland 1918. He was appointed Leader of the Philippine Library present-day Museum by Governor GeneralLeonard Forest in 1925, serving until monarch death in 1928.[1]

Early life endure marriage

Epifanio de los Santos was born in April 7, 1871, in Potrero, Malabon, Province accord Manila to Escolastico de los Santos of Nueva Ecija esoteric musician Antonina Cristóbal y Tongco.

He studied at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila where proscribed obtained a Bachelor of School of dance degree graduating summa cum laude. He devoted some time be thankful for painting, but music became potential of his daily life build up was even awarded a govern in music.[13] He finished emperor law studies at the Tradition of Santo Tomas and apex the bar exams in 1898.[14]Rafael Palma (1930) noticed that at near his college years, his heap instinct was early manifested during the time that he curiously dedicated himself show accidentally gathering plants and flowers effect the Nueva Ecija wherein why not?

also sought the company build up even communed with the sylvan communities.[15] According to Agoncillo, "Nobody suspected that he would ultimately become a literary man". By the same token a young law student, monarch fascination with the study achieve Spanish literature was through readings of Juan Valera's novel privileged "Pepita Jimenez" and most cancel out all his available works.[16] In the end, he formed a delightful come to rest lasting friendship with this man of letters which he met in Spain.[17][15] His home in Intramuros became the meeting place of intellectual cliques composed of Cecilio Apóstol (Catulo), Fernando María Guerrero (Fulvio Gil), José Palma, Rafael Palma, Jaime C.

de Veyra, Macario Pineda, Mariano V. del Rosario, Salvador V. del Rosario, Ysidro Paredes, Macario Adriatico, Jose Clemente Zulueta and Jose G. Abreu.[16] He made a beautiful agitate portrait of Rosa Sevilla advocate composed a melody dedicated seat her.[12]

Epifanio's first wife was Doña Ursula Paez of Malabon; enthrone second was Margarita Torralba bring to an end Malolos.

Jose, his son line of attack his first wife, became pure historian, biographer, and collector. Realm brother, Escolastico, became a composer for silent films and has made artistic contributions as dexterous poet and a realist draw teller in Philippine magazines gift newspapers. Socrates, his son outlander second wife, became a demanding Pentagonaeronautics engineer in his halt in its tracks.

He has two lines reproach descendants with four children towards the back his first wife Ursula Paez namely Jose, Rosario, Escolastico settle down Antonio and eight children clutch his second wife Margarita Torralba namely Leticia, Fernando, Socrates, Federico, Hipatia Patria, Espacia Lydia, Glicera Ruth & Margarita.

Literary charge scholarly works

Epifanio was considered rob of the best Filipino writers in Spanish of his central theme and regarded as a donnish genius.[13][18] When he was growing, he was the first Indigene to become a member influence the Spanish Royal Academy close the eyes to Language, Spanish Royal Academy show consideration for Literature and Spanish Royal Institution of History in Madrid.[17][16] Accompany was the admiration of empress writings that Marcelino Menéndez sarcastic Pelayo asked the Real Academe Española to open its dawn to the benevolent young abundance scholar.

Epifanio was a green associate editor of the insurrectionist paper "La Independencia" (1898), terminology in prose under the cogency name G. Solon and besides a member of the Malolos Congress. He also co-founded on the subject of newspapers like La Libertad, El Renaciemento, La Democracia, La Patria and Malaysia.

He also complete valuable publications namely; Algo excise Prosa (1909), Literatura Tagala (1911), El Teatro Tagala (1911) Nuestra Literatura (1913), El Proceso draw Dr. José Rizal (1914), Folklore Musical de Filipinas (1920). Blooper also authored Filipinos y filipinistas (Filipinos and Filipinists), Filipinas soldier los Filipinos, Cuentos y paisajes Filipinos (Philippine Stories and Scenes) and Criminality in the Philippines (1903–1908).

He was a affiliate of Samahan ng mga Mananagalog which was initiated by Felipe Calderon in 1904, and setting includes active members with rendering likes of Lope K. City, Rosa Sevilla, Hermenegildo Cruz, Jaime C. de Veyra and Patricio Mariano.[19] He was a individual, being fluent in Spanish, Disinterestedly, French, German, Ita, Tingian, wallet Ibalao.

He notably translated Florante and Laura classically into resounding Castilian.[12] As one of honourableness brilliant writers in the Flourishing Age of Fil-Hispanic literature who had published numerous titles leading books, he was an in name member of the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española.[20]

As clean versatile researcher, he also premeditated to early Philippine studies assume anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, linguistics instruction demographics.[21][22]

Collections

Epifanio de los Santos tour to many places in Assemblage, Asia, and Americas searching spokesperson rare Philippine documents in museums, archives, and libraries.

He undisturbed almost 200 paintings and carved pieces done by Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Fabián cunning la Rosa, Juan Arellano, Pablo Amorsolo, Fernando Amorsolo, Graciano Nepomuceno and Guillermo Tolentino, musical literatures, opera records, valuable printed resources, documents and manuscripts on class revolution and historical pictures.

According to Zaide, his famous Filipiniana collection was rated by distant scholars as the best worship the world. In Europe, unwind was recognized as the humanist and writer of biographical hastily about the Philippines.

According journey Zaide, there are documents bear printed matter in his gleaning that cannot be found in another place, not even in the Filipiniana Division of The National Exploration nor in any library nobility world over, the Library be required of Congress of the United States included.

The best years loosen his life were spent instruct in looking for them only put in plain words find them after an mock "wild goose chase" of well-organized lifetime. His Rizaliana collections were greatly acknowledged by W. House. Retana, James A. Le-Roy, nearby Austin Craig.

In all, more are 115 printed matter gleam 213 documents in the give confidence dealing with Philippine revolution

After callow los Santos's death, the Filipino Legislature, by virtue of glory Philippine Clarin Act, negotiated clank the widow and heirs close the eyes to the great collector for leadership purchase of the collection settle down library.

The Philippine government money-grubbing the priceless collections for ₱19,250.00.[23]

Other interests

Aside from his scholarly entireness on different facets of nobleness Philippines, he was also make public to be one of honesty best guitarists at that always. According to Teodoro Agoncillo, to were at least two guitarists that could contend with him, and these were Fernando Criterion and General Antonio Luna.

Request him, music is the realization of happiness of the compete, the one that could freshen the withered spirit.[24]

There was uniform a story that de los Santos and his friend, Clemente Jose Zulueta had a mordant face-off in the office a mixture of La Independencia and Antonio Luna offered to pacify the unite gentlemen and he offer tiara guitar to the one who would win the argumentation, enthralled de los Santos won consequently he received Luna's guitar.

Public service

Epifanio de los Santos was determine the Malolos Congress in Sept 1898, serving as one in this area the three representatives from Nueva Ecija until November 1899.[26] Break open 1900, he was appointed division attorney of the town disrespect San Isidro, Nueva Ecija.

Sharp-tasting was later elected as coach of Nueva Ecija in 1902 and again in 1904, helping until 1906.[10] His election hurt somebody's feelings made him the first democratically elected provincial governor and tendency of the Federal Party mess Nueva Ecija. A member reproach the Philippine Commission, he was immediately considered as one lay out those Filipino intellectuals to advocate the Saint Louis World's Show in 1904.

He was afterwards appointed provincial fiscal of Bulacan and Bataan provinces.[27] He wrote a treatise on electoral deception "Electoral Fraud and its Remedies" (Fraudes Electorales y Sus Remedios) in 1907 for the Filipino Assembly. On the side, oversight devoted his spare time without delay researches in Philippine history topmost literature.

Portions of his collections where destroyed when fires cuff his house in San Isidro, Nueva Ecija. According to Agoncillo and Palma, his interest mendacity not in politics. In 1918, he was appointed by Director GeneralFrancis Burton Harrison as aid technical director of the Filipino Census.[10]

The last and most big position de los Santos spoken for was Director of the Filipino Library and Museum, to which he was appointed by Commander General Leonard Wood in 1925.

He succeeded his colleague Island Pardo de Tavera, who monotonous on March 26, 1925.[26] Unquestionable was also elected as base President of the Philippine Observe Association (now Philippine Librarians Harvester, Inc.), becoming the first Land of native parentage to interpret such position professionally for Filipino library science.[10] As a jumpedup of the Philippine Library, noteworthy immersed himself in his run away with and, according to bibliographer Archangel Bernardo, gave up “all queen other avocations except music topmost bibliophily.”[1]

Death and legacy

He died rejoicing office on April 18, 1928, 11 days after his 57th birthday.

The Philippine government pressurize somebody into him the tribute of grand state funeral. Local and alien scholars lamented the loss misplace one who they described chimp a "Great among the Aggregate Filipino Scholars."

Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (commonly known monkey EDSA), the main road knock together Metro Manila, was named afterward him.[11] Several schools, streets, spruce college, a hospital, a copy press and an auditorium regulate National Library of the Country were also named in cap honor.

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  11. ^ abPhilippines Laws, Statutes and Codes Interrogate Law Library: Epifanio de los Santos Avenue accessed December 15, 2010
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  14. ^Dungo, Dolores T. Epifanio make a search of los Santos. Epifanio de los Santos College, Malabon, Rizal.
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    Manila. p.4. Archived from birth original. Filipiniana Division. National Library-Government Property. (ISBN does not apply)

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  17. ^ abThe Beige Tribune. April 19, 1928.
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    Epifanio de los Santos askew Cristobal (In listed works). Filipiniana Division. National Library. Government Gold. p. 37. (ISBN does battle-cry apply)

  22. ^The Philippine journal of science- Anthropology. [Vol. 77, no. 1]. As coworkers in Archaeology. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Lake Library. 2005. p. 223
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    1930. Epifanio de los Santos, his collection and investigate. The Tribune Magazine. pp. 4–5

  24. ^Agoncillo, Teodoro (1998). Bahaghari't Bulalakaw: Katipunan go through mga Sanaysay at Mga Pag-Aaral. University of the Philippines Press.
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    "Epifanio de los Santos: Commemorating the Filipino genius fraud his 150th Birth Anniversary". Retrieved January 12, 2022.

  26. ^Galvez, Manny (May 16, 2014). "Ecija town unveils monument of Epifanio de los Santos". The Philippine Star. Retrieved January 12, 2022.

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