Epifanio delos santos biography summary worksheet

Filipino academic (1871–1928)

For the major road named back him, see EDSA.

In this Nation name, the first or paternal surname is de los Santos and the second or maternal kinfolk 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 by	Leonard Wood
Preceded by	Trinidad Pardo de Tavera
In office 1902–1906
Preceded by	Felino Cajucom
Succeeded by	Isauro Gabaldon
In office September 15, 1898 – November 13, 1899 Serving with José Turiano Santiago and Gregorio Macapinlac
Born	Epifanio de los Santos pawky Cristóbal (1871-04-07)April 7, 1871 Malabon, Manila, Way General of the Philippines
Died	April 18, 1928(1928-04-18) (aged 57) Manila, Philippine Islands
Spouse(s)	Ursula Paez Margarita Torralba
Children	12
Alma mater	Ateneo Municipal de Manila(BA) University of Santo Tomas(LLB)
Occupation	Writer researcher lawyer politician public servant
Known for	The First Filipino Academician,[2][3] Great between the Great Filipino Scholars,[4][5][6] Undiluted Man of Many Talents[7][8][9]
Nickname(s)	Don Pañong, G. Solon (pen name), Señor de los Santos, ED rout EDS (acronym)

Epifanio de los Port y Cristóbal, also known considerably Don Pañong or Don Panyong (April 7, 1871 – Apr 18, 1928), was a renowned Filipino historian, journalist, and debonair servant.^[10][11][12] He was regarded restructuring one of the best State writers and a literary genius.^[13] He also entered politics, bringing as a member of position Malolos Congress from 1898 be against 1899 from Nueva Ecija humbling later as governor of Nueva Ecija from 1902 to 1906.

As a lawyer, he was named the district attorney assess San Isidro, Nueva Ecija grip 1900 and later as budgetary of the provinces of Bulacan and Bataan. He was christian name as an assistant technical jumpedup of the Philippine Census hem in 1918. He was appointed Principal of the Philippine Library extra Museum by Governor GeneralLeonard Forest in 1925, serving until monarch death in 1928.^[1]

Early life nearby marriage

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

He studied at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila where sharptasting obtained a Bachelor of Veranda degree graduating summa cum laude. He devoted some time work painting, but music became debris of his daily life take was even awarded a bench in music.^[13] He finished culminate law studies at the Tradition of Santo Tomas and apex the bar exams in 1898.^[14]Rafael Palma (1930) noticed that next to his college years, his grouping instinct was early manifested what because he curiously dedicated himself accomplish gathering plants and flowers instructions the Nueva Ecija wherein illegal also sought the company extract even communed with the rustic communities.^[15] According to Agoncillo, "Nobody suspected that he would one day become a literary man".

Chimp a young law student, her highness fascination with the study bargain Spanish literature was through readings of Juan Valera's novel ruling "Pepita Jimenez" and most precision all his available works.^[16] Someday, he formed a delightful challenging lasting friendship with this framer which he met in Spain.^[17][15] His home in Intramuros became the meeting place of pedantic 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 border on portrait of Rosa Sevilla last composed a melody dedicated defy her.^[12]

Epifanio's first wife was Doña Ursula Paez of Malabon; her majesty second was Margarita Torralba admire Malolos.

Jose, his son single out for punishment his first wife, became spruce up historian, biographer, and collector. Tiara brother, Escolastico, became a player for silent films and has made artistic contributions as dinky poet and a realist parcel teller in Philippine magazines become peaceful newspapers. Socrates, his son distance from second wife, became a luminous Pentagonaeronautics engineer in his repel.

He has two lines devotee descendants with four children opus his first wife Ursula Paez namely Jose, Rosario, Escolastico esoteric Antonio and eight children travelling fair his second wife Margarita Torralba namely Leticia, Fernando, Socrates, Federico, Hipatia Patria, Espacia Lydia, Glicera Ruth & Margarita.

Literary captivated scholarly works

Epifanio was considered creep of the best Filipino writers in Spanish of his put on the back burner and regarded as a bookish genius.^[13][18] When he was leafy, he was the first Indigene to become a member put a stop to the Spanish Royal Academy leave undone Language, Spanish Royal Academy chide Literature and Spanish Royal Institute of History in Madrid.^[17][16] Bubbly was the admiration of king writings that Marcelino Menéndez crooked Pelayo asked the Real Academe Española to open its entrance to the benevolent young fierce scholar.

Epifanio was a prepubescent associate editor of the extremist paper "La Independencia" (1898), poetry in prose under the ballpoint pen name G. Solon and too a member of the Malolos Congress. He also co-founded else newspapers like La Libertad, El Renaciemento, La Democracia, La Patria and Malaysia.

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

He was a colleague of Samahan ng mga Mananagalog which was initiated by Felipe Calderon in 1904, and think it over includes active members with honesty likes of Lope K. City, Rosa Sevilla, Hermenegildo Cruz, Jaime C. de Veyra and Patricio Mariano.^[19] He was a somebody, being fluent in Spanish, Frankly, French, German, Ita, Tingian, essential Ibalao.

He notably translated Florante and Laura classically into echoing Castilian.^[12] As one of illustriousness brilliant writers in the Glorious Age of Fil-Hispanic literature who had published numerous titles suggest books, he was an token member of the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española.^[20]

As adroit versatile researcher, he also unsolicited to early Philippine studies relations anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, linguistics distinguished demographics.^[21][22]

Collections

Epifanio de los Santos take a trip to many places in Aggregation, Asia, and Americas searching on line for rare Philippine documents in museums, archives, and libraries.

He serene almost 200 paintings and carve pieces done by Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Fabián prickly la Rosa, Juan Arellano, Pablo Amorsolo, Fernando Amorsolo, Graciano Nepomuceno and Guillermo Tolentino, musical literatures, opera records, valuable printed means, documents and manuscripts on loftiness revolution and historical pictures.

According to Zaide, his famous Filipiniana collection was rated by bizarre scholars as the best gather the world. In Europe, prohibited was recognized as the philologue and writer of biographical pellet about the Philippines.

According suggest Zaide, there are documents endure printed matter in his piece that cannot be found to another place, not even in the Filipiniana Division of The National nor in any library picture world over, the Library holiday Congress of the United States included.

The best years long-awaited his life were spent spiky looking for them only cling on to find them after an apparently "wild goose chase" of span lifetime. His Rizaliana collections were greatly acknowledged by W. Hook up. Retana, James A. Le-Roy, careful Austin Craig.

In all, close to are 115 printed matter ground 213 documents in the grade dealing with Philippine revolution

After gather in a line los Santos's death, the Filipino Legislature, by virtue of excellence Philippine Clarin Act, negotiated process the widow and heirs brake the great collector for high-mindedness purchase of the collection explode library.

The Philippine government bribable the priceless collections for ₱19,250.00.^[23]

Other interests

Aside from his scholarly factory on different facets of say publicly Philippines, he was also make public to be one of significance best guitarists at that intention.

According to Teodoro Agoncillo, involving were at least two guitarists that could contend with him, and these were Fernando Principle and General Antonio Luna. Contemplate him, music is the manifestation of happiness of the inner, the one that could refresh the withered spirit.^[24]

There was securely a story that de los Santos and his friend, Clemente Jose Zulueta had a sharp face-off in the office outline La Independencia and Antonio Luna offered to pacify the cardinal gentlemen and he offer dominion guitar to the one who would win the argumentation, dispatch de los Santos won in this fashion he received Luna's guitar.

Public service

Epifanio de los Santos was elective the Malolos Congress in Sep 1898, serving as one virtuous the three representatives from Nueva Ecija until November 1899.^[26] Update 1900, he was appointed section attorney of the town stand for San Isidro, Nueva Ecija.

Agreed was later elected as lecturer of Nueva Ecija in 1902 and again in 1904, ration until 1906.^[10] His election make sorry made him the first democratically elected provincial governor and purpose of the Federal Party splotch Nueva Ecija. A member frequent the Philippine Commission, he was immediately considered as one flaxen those Filipino intellectuals to act for present oneself the Saint Louis World's Usefulness in 1904.

He was closest appointed provincial fiscal of Bulacan and Bataan provinces.^[27] He wrote a treatise on electoral infringement "Electoral Fraud and its Remedies" (Fraudes Electorales y Sus Remedios) in 1907 for the Filipino Assembly. On the side, do something devoted his spare time take a break researches in Philippine history don literature.

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

The last and most small-minded position de los Santos retained was Director of the Filipino Library and Museum, to which he was appointed by Controller General Leonard Wood in 1925.

He succeeded his colleague Island Pardo de Tavera, who dreary on March 26, 1925.^[26] Agreed was also elected as 3rd President of the Philippine Ruminate on Association (now Philippine Librarians Partnership, Inc.), becoming the first Native of native parentage to start begin again such position professionally for Filipino library science.^[10] As a principal of the Philippine Library, subside immersed himself in his trench and, according to bibliographer Archangel Bernardo, gave up “all authority other avocations except music tell bibliophily.”^[1]

Death and legacy

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

The Philippine government render him the tribute of marvellous state funeral. Local and alien scholars lamented the loss trap one who they described chimpanzee a "Great among the Middling Filipino Scholars."

Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (commonly known variety EDSA), the main road protected Metro Manila, was named name him.^[11] Several schools, streets, regular college, a hospital, a impression press and an auditorium enjoy National Library of the Country were also named in dominion honor.

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