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Mendoza, Julie Anne Mae S.

HS 3

III-11 Prof. Abiog

ASSIGNMENT:

Identify the following in relation to Rizals life, works and sojourns.

1. AUSTIN COATES
- Austin Coates was a British civil servant, writer and traveller. He was the one who
wrote Rizal, Philippine Nationalist and Martyr, a biographical book about the
Philippine national hero Jose Rizal. The book was published by the Oxford University
Press in Hong Kong in 1968. Coates Rizal, Philippine Nationalist and Martyr is the
second biographical account of the life of Rizal written by a non-Filipino author.
Regarded as one of the better biographers of Rizal, Coates book on Rizal is
considered as one of the very best biographies of the Filipino national hero. In the
biographical literature, Coates emphatically explained that Rizal was the very first
exponent of nationalism in Asia.
2. FRANCISCO PI y MARGALL
- On December 26, 1896, Rizal was formally condemned to death by a Spanish court
martial. Francisco Pi y Margall, who had been the president of Spains short-lived First
Republic in 1873, stepped down from his moral high horse and begged the Kings
Prime Minister, Canovas, to spare Rizals life.
3. FAUSTINO TINONG ALFON
- When Rizal was exiled in Dapitan in 1892, he had a cook named Faustino Tinong
Alfon, who was from Cebu and then moved to Dapitan, Zamboanga Del Norte. There
he was hired as Rizals cook and handyman. Tinong lived and worked in Rizals
Talisay estate, cooked meals, and assisted Rizal during eye operations. In an interview
with The Independent in 1929, Tinong mentioned that Rizals meals usually consisted
of three dishes: a Filipino dish,a Spanish dish, and another Filipino or mestizo dish.
Tinong also mentioned that Rizal liked lanzones and mangoes.
4. MANUEL SARKISYANZ
- Manuel Sarkisyanz has explored a wide range of interests during his long academic
career. He studied in the United States and taught for many years at the University of
Heidelberg. He has written on Burma, Russia, and Latin America, and eventually
became interested in the life of Jose Rizal. In his book Rizals Spain, Sarkisyanz argues
that the Filipino hero owed much of his intellectual development to another Spain less
known to most Filipinos inured in revolutionary literature. Sarkisyanz drives his point
to appreciate the close relation between the Philippines as exemplified by Jose Rizal
and the Republican Spain.
5. KARL ULLMAN
- On the Philosophers Way, from where Rizal had the famous romantic view over
Heidelberg, the Neckar River, and the Castle, he met Pastor Karl Ullman, the Protestant
pastor in the neighbouring village of the Wilhemsfeld in the Odenwald Hills. Pastor
Ullman invited Jose Rizal to stay in Wilhemsfeld with his family for three months.
Rizal willingly accepted Pastor Ullmans invitation because this gave him greater
opportunity to speak German, offered him a quiet and simple countryside alternative to
the busy student life in Heidelberg, and gave him the chance of experiencing European
family life.
6. MIGUEL MORAYTA
- Miguel Morayta was a Spanish historian, statesman, professor, and friend of the
Filipino people during Spanish colonial rule. Morayta was a member of Circulo
Hispano-Filipino- a group of reformists who wants the Spanish government to grant
Filipinos and its government fundamental rights which every Spanish national enjoy.
In one of Rizals letters in the year 1884, he wrote to his parents and siblings about a
protest championing academic freedom. He mentioned a Dr.Miguel Morayta, professor
of history at the Universidad Central de Madrid who delivered an address on the subject
at the opening of the academic year. Rizal reported in his letter to Calamba that the
bishops excommunicated Morayta for the speech, but there were also calls from
students who wanted the same bishops excommunicated themselves. Morayta was said
to be one of those

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