Pedro Paterno

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Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera-Ignacio , also Pedro Alejandro Paterno y Debera Ignacio (born February 27, 1857 in Manila , † April 26, 1911 in Manila) was a Filipino politician, independence activist, member of the Katipunan and an important Filipino writer.

Pedro Paterno studied at the Ateneo de Manila University and later at the University of Salamanca , but graduated from the Complutense University in Madrid , Spain with a law degree . During this time he became an important member of the propaganda movement of young Filipino students in Europe .

During the Philippine Revolution , he and Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the first provisional Philippine republic in the caves of Biak-na-Bato , the Republic of Biak-na-Bato in 1897, and later became the negotiator of the Biak-na-Bato Pact led. Pedro Paterno reached his political climax when he became the Deputy Prime Minister of the first Philippine Republic (May 7, 1899 to November 13, 1899). He was captured in April 1900 and received an amnesty in July, whereupon he collaborated with the Schurman Commission , which has brought him to this day the accusation of collaboration . In December he founded the conservative political party Partido Federal together with Cayetano Arellano , Benito Legarda , Trinidad Pardo de Tavera and Florentino Torres . From 1907 he was a member of the Philippine Assembly .

As a writer, Sampaguita y Poesias Varias published the first collection of Filipino poems in Spain in 1880 . With Ninay he published the first known novel in 1885 that was written by a native of Filippino. In 1908 he published The pact of Biyak-na-Bato: and, Ninay and summarized the events of the years of the failed independence struggle. In the books La antigua civilización tagálog (apuntes) (1915) and El cristianismo en la antigua civilización tagálog (1892) he tried to depict the history of the Tagalog people and the Philippines.

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SURNAME Paterno, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paterno y de Vera-Ignacio, Pedro Alejandro; Paterno y Debera Ignacio, Pedro Alejandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino politician, independence activist and member of the Katipunan
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Manila
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1911
Place of death Manila