THE LIFE AND WORKS OF

RIZAL
INSTRUCTOR: IAN KARL P. AMORTE, LPT
 Rizal’s Life Background

Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda.

Born on June 19, 1861 at Calamba, Laguna.
Died on December 30, 1896 at Bagumbayan.
He is into Arts, Science and medicine specialized in
Ophthalmology.
Firing squad is the execution of Rizal.
His last word before his execution “Consummatum Est!”
or “It is finished”.
Rizal returned to the Philippines in 1982. He founded a
nonviolent-reform society the “La Liga Filipina” , in
Manila.
 Rizal’s Parents
Rizal also had Spanish ancestry. Regina Mother: Teodora Alonso
Ochoa, a grandmother of his mother,
Teodora, had mixed Spanish, Chinese, and Father: Francisco Mercado
Tagalog blood. His maternal grandfather
was a half-Spanish engineer named
Lorenzo Alberto Alonzo. José Rizal's
maternal great-great-grandfather,
Eugenio Ursua, was of Japanese ancestry.
 Rizal’s Siblings
SATURNINA JOSE RIZAL
PACIANO CONCEPTION
NARCISA JOSEFA
OLYMPIA TRINIDAD
LUCIA SOLEDAD
MARIA
 Works of Rizal
Noli Me Tangere Makamisa
Published in Berlin
Makamisa (English: After
Germany, in 1887. El Filibusterismo
Mass) is an unfinished novel
Maximo Viola who Published in Ghent,
written by Filipino patriot
helped Rizal’s novel to Belgium, in 1891.
and writer José Rizal
published. Valentin Ventura who
help rizal to lend some
money to published his
second novel
 Famous Poems of Rizal
“Sa Aking Kabata” "A la juventud filipina"
was written by Rizal when
(“To my fellow he was only eighteen years
"Mi último adiós"
children”), which he old, and was dedicated to
("My Last Farewell") is a
allegedly wrote at the the Filipino youth which he
poem written by Filipino
describes as "the fair hope
age of eight. propagandist and writer Dr.
of my motherland."
José Rizal before his
execution by firing squad
on December 30, 1896
 Rizal’s Education
Jose Rizal’s first teacher was his mother, who had taught him to read and pray and who had
encouraged him to write poetry.
Later, private tutor, (Maestro Celestino, Lucas Padua, Leon Monroy) taught the young Rizal Spanish
and Latin, before he was sent to private school in Calamba and Binan.
When he was 11 years old, Rizal entered the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. He earned excellent marks
in subjects like philosophy, physics, chemistry, and natural history.
At this school, he read novels; wrote prize-winning poetry (and even a melodrama) and practiced
arts (drawing, painting, and clay modelling) Rizal eventually earned a land surveyor's and assessor's
degree from the Ateneo Municipal while taking up Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo
Tomas.
Upon learning that his mother was going blind, Rizal opted to study ophthalmology at the UST
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (he was not able to complete).
 Rizal’s Education
Without the knowledge of his parents, Rizal traveled to Europe. "In order to obtain
a better education, had had to leave his country stealthily like a fugitive from
justice, and his family, to save themselves from persecution, were compelled to
profess ignorance of his plans and movements.

Rizal earned a Licentiate in Medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid, where he also
took courses in philosophy and literature. It was in Madrid that he conceived of writing
Noli Me Tangere. He also attended the University of Paris and, in 1887 completed his eye
specialization course at the University of Heidelberg. It was also in that year that Rizal's
first novel was published (in Berlin).