Jose C. Zulueta

Jose Clemente Zulueta (born November 23, 1876 in Paco , Manila , † September 10, 1904 ) was a Filipino poet , editor and politician .

biography

Jose C. Zulueta, whose mother died five days after he was born, was adopted after the death of his father at an early age . After attending school, he studied history at the Colegio de San Juan de Padua and later at the Ateneo Municipal , where he acquired a Bachiller en Artes . In his circle of friends he organized a student group in which he gave evening lectures on philosophy , arithmetic , algebra , ethics , rhetoric and poetry .

He later studied law at the University of Santo Tomas . At this time he was also active as a poet and wrote poems in Spanish . His poem Afectos a la virgen , which later appeared on March 1, 1896 in the Revista Catolica de Filipinas , was awarded the Silver Lily ( Lirio de Plata ) of the Spanish Academia Bibliografico Mariana in Lleida in 1895 .

On June 20, 1898, he founded the daily La Libertad , which, however, was banned after the first edition during the Spanish-American War , while the printing press was confiscated by the revolutionary government. He then became a journalist at the La Independencia newspaper founded by General Antonio Luna , for which he worked under the pseudonym “M. Kaun ”wrote an article.

After the US Army occupied Manila , he resumed his studies and was admitted to the bar in 1902 . While still a student, he founded along with Modesto Reyes , the appearing in Manila daily newspaper La Union , but by then US - Governor Elwell Stephen Otis because of anti-Americanism at a press censorship was occupied.

Later he was also a lecturer in Filipino and world history at the Liceo de Manila and librarian at the Centro Artistico and Club International . Shortly afterwards he was appointed librarian of the governor's library by the new US governor William Howard Taft and was in Barcelona and Madrid between 1903 and 1904 because of this work .

Jose C. Zulueta died in Manila in 1904.