Geography, History, and Filipino: TRINIDAD H. PARDO DE TAVERA: The Untold Filipino Hero and Naturalist
Full name:
Trinidad Hermenegildo Jose Maria Juan Francisco Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho
Born:
April 13, 1857, In Escolta, Manila.
Died:
March 26, 1925, at 67 years old
Status:
Physician, Historian, Political Leader, naturalist, journalist, Linguist
Parents:
Felix Pardo de Tavera & Juliana Gorricho Pardo de Tavera
Ethnicity:
Filipino with Spanish & Portuguese Descent
Wife:
Concepcion Cembrano Vinda de Pardo de Tavera
Children:
Carlos Pardo de Tavera, Carmen Pardo de Tavera de Gonzales, Alfredo Pardo de Tavera
Siblings:
Maria de la Paz Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho (wife of Filipino Artist, Juan Luna)
Childhood:
Called “Trini” as a child. His father died when he was at a young age. So his uncle, and his wife unable to bear him children, adopted Trini and his siblings.
They lived at Cabildo Street, Intramuros.
His uncle was given one of the highest honors in the land, “Consejo de Administracion,” and he was conferred into a knight of the order of Isabella the Catholic Queen. However, he was named one of the assemblymen to push reforms in the Philippines. Then he was imprisoned in Fort Santiago and was sentenced to be deported to Guam. Soon, the sentence was lifted but Joaquin (Trini’s uncle) was unable to bear the humiliation and soon moved to Paris with his wife and adopted children.
School life:
While his uncle was going through all this, Trini was studying medicine at the University of Tomas. He had already completed his primary and secondary school at the Ateneo de Municipal de Manila. In 1873, he got a Bachelor of Arts degree in Colegio San Juan de Letran. When he moved to Paris with his family, he continued studying medicine under Professor Etienne Stephanie Tarnier at the University of Paris. In 1880, he received his permit in medicine and the following year his Bachelor in Medicine degree. Trini also enrolled at the institute of language and received his diploma in the Malay language. While studying he was also writing these books…
Books:
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
Contribucion Para El Estudio de los Antiguos Alfabetos Filipinos (Contribution to the Study of Ancient Philippine Alphabets)
Etimologias de los nombres de razas de Filipinas (Etymology of the names of the Philippine Race)
Consideraciones Sobre El Origin Del Nombre De Los Numeros En Tagalog (Considerations About The Origin Of The Name Of The Numbers In Tagalog)
The Legacy of Ignorantism
Una Memoria de Anda y Salazar (The memory of Anda and Salazar)
Biblioteca Filipina: ó sea, catálogo razonado de todos los impresos, tanto insulares como extranjeros, relativos á la historia, la etnografía, la linguística, la botánica, la fauna, la flora, la geología, la hidrografía, la geografía… (Philippine Library: that is, a reasoned catalog of all forms, both insular and foreign, relating to history, ethnography, linguistics, botany, fauna, flora, geology, hydrography, geography …)
Noticias Sobre La Imprenta y El Grabado En Filipinas (Classic Reprint) (News About Printing And Engraving In The Philippines)
Etimologias de Los Nombres de Razas de Filipinas (Etymologies of Philippine Race Names)
Antologia: Sobre Las Lenguas Filipinas (Anthology: About Philippine Languages)
Jubby life (Job life):
Friends with Jose Rizal
Part of La Liga Filipina
An active member of propaganda movement in Spain
Founded the declaration of La Democracia
A journalist for the Philippine revolution
Supported the American side after the Treaty of Paris
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