He was a prolific poet, essayist, diarist, correspondent, and novelist whose most famous works were his two novels, Noli me Tangere and El filibusterismo. Rizal, a polyglot, conversed at least in ten languages. He attended the University of Paris and earned a second doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. He enrolled in medicine and philosophy and letters at the University of Santo Tomas and then traveled alone to Madrid, Spain, where he continued his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid, earning the licentiate in medicine. The seventh of eleven children to a wealthy family in the town, Rizal attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts.

His military trial made him a martyr of the revolution. Poeple consider him the national hero and commemorate the anniversary of his death as a holiday, called Rizal day. José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, a polymath nationalist, most prominently advocated during the colonial era. Spanish exiled Philippine reformer and writer José Rizal from 1892 to 1896 for his political novels, later arrested him, and executed him for sedition his death helped to fuel an insurrection against rule from 1896 to 1898.

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