José Rizal

José Rizal was born in 1861, a physician, novelist and polemicist, educated in Manila and then in Madrid, Paris and Heidelberg. An ophthalmologist by profession, he wrote in Spanish. He did not advocate armed revolution but equality of rights, representation in the Cortes and the secularisation of parishes. Deported for four years to Dapitan, where he treated patients and taught, then tried by a court martial, he was shot in Manila in December 1896, aged thirty-five.

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• NovelNoli Me TangereNoli me tángereJosé Rizal · 1887Literature