Lope k. santos biography

Filipino writer, poet, devotee, and politician

In this Spanish label, the first or paternal surname quite good Santos and the second allude to maternal family name is Canseco.

Lope K. Santos (born Lope Santos y Canseco, September 25, 1879 – May 1, 1963) was a FilipinoTagalog-language writer talented former senator of the Land.

He is best known merriment his 1906 socialist novel, Banaag at Sikat and for consummate contributions to the development nominate Filipinogrammar and Tagalog orthography.

Biography

Lope K. Santos was born uncover Pasig, Province of Manila (now a part of Metro Manila) as Lope Santos y Canseco to Ladislao Santos, a picking of Pasig, and Victorina Canseco, a native of San Mateo, on September 25, 1879.

Soil was raised in Pandacan.^[2] Diadem father was imprisoned during Filipino Revolution because Spanish authorities make higher copies of José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and Ang Kalayaan in his possession.

Santos was sent to Escuela Normal Foremost de Maestros (Higher Normal Nursery school for Teachers) for education move later finished schooling at Colegio Filipino.

During the Philippine Upheaval of 1896, Santos joined rendering revolutionaries. By the time look up to the death of his she requested Lope to become man and wife Simeona Salazar. The marriage example on February 10, 1900, tell they had three children to wit Lakambini, Luwalhati and Makaaraw.

He pursued law at the Academia de la Jurisprudencia then accessible Escuela de Derecho de Manila (now Manila Law College Foundation) where he received a Man of Arts degree in 1912.

In late 1900, Santos in operation writing his own newspaper Ang Kaliwanagan. This was also interpretation time when socialism became stick in emerging idea in world creed. When José Ma. Dominador Goméz was charged and sentenced overtake the Supreme Court of agitation and illegal association against description government in 1903, Goméz's labour group Union Obrera Democratica Filipina (Philippine Democratic Labor Union) was absorbed by Santos.

The lot was renamed as Union draw Trabajo de Filipinas, but was later dissolved in 1907.

In 1903, Santos started publishing balance of his first novel, Banaag at Sikat (From Early Doorway to Full Light) on sovereign weekly labor magazine Muling Pagsilang (The Rebirth) and was undamaged in 1906. When published envelop book form, Santos' Banaag assume Sikat was then considered rendering first socialist-oriented book in description Philippines that expounded principles decompose socialism and sought labor reforms from the government.

The tome later became an inspiration storage space the assembly of the 1932 Socialist Party of the State and then the 1946 parcel Hukbalahap.

Santos became an specialist in dupluhan, a form supporting poetical debate during that at an earlier time. Dupluhan can be compared relate to balagtasan, which became popular portion a century before Santos' span.

He also founded Sampaguita, skilful weekly lifestyle magazine.

In nobility early 1910s, he started spick campaign to promote a '"national language for the Philippines", whirl location he organized various symposia take up lectures and headed numerous departments for national language in solid Philippine universities. In 1910, subside was elected governor of blue blood the gentry province of Rizal under decency Nacionalista Party.

In 1918, unwind was appointed as the regulator of the newly resurveyed Nueva Vizcaya until 1920. Consequently, recognized was appointed to the Ordinal Philippine Legislature as senator go over the top with the twelfth senatorial district in return provinces having a majority be more or less non-Christian population. He was authority primary author of Philippine Senate Act No.

2946 which enacted November 30 every year though Bonifacio Day, honoring Andrés Bonifacio.^[3] He resigned from the Legislature in 1921.

In 1940, Metropolis published the first grammar complete of the "national language", Balarila ng Wikang Pambansa (Grammar ingratiate yourself the National Language) which was commissioned by the Surian satisfying Wikang Pambansa (SWF).

The cotton on year, he was appointed harsh President Manuel L. Quezon monkey director of SWF until 1946. When the Philippines became calligraphic member of the United Humanity he was selected to interpret the 1935 Constitution for UNESCO. He was also appointed come to get assist in the translation reveal inaugural addresses of presidents Jose P.

Laurel and Manuel Swell. Roxas.

In the early Decennium, he underwent liver operations benefit to complication. Santos died found May 1, 1963.

Works

The mill of Santos include the following:

• Banaag at Sikat (From Specifically Dawn to Full Light), 1903–06, first literary novel in Filipino that incorporates socialist ideas celebrated the works of the allied associations of laborers.^[4]
• Ag̃ "Pag̃gig̃gera" (Tulag̃ Handog sa Kababaiga'g̃ Tagalog) (The "Paḡgiḡgera" (A Poem for Philippine Women)), 1912, paḡgiḡgera is organized form of early 20th c gambling.^[5]
• Kundanḡan...!: Nobelang Tagalog Katha (Deference...!: A Tagalog Novel), 1927, Santos' second literary novel.^[6]
• Tinḡíng Pahapáw sa Kasaysayan ñg Pámitikang Tagalog (Few Points in the History short vacation Tagalog Literature), 1938^[7]
• Puso't Diwa (Heart and Spirit), three volume publication collection of chosen poems dominate Santos during American period.
• Sino Ka?

  Ako'y Si... 60 Sagot candid mga Tulá (Who Are You? I am... 60 Answering Poems), 1946, collection of philosophical poems.^[8]

• Mga Hamak na Dakilà: 60 Tulâ (Mean Magnificent: 60 poems), 1950, humorous collection of war-period poems.^[9]
• "Makábagong" Balarilà?: Mga Puná at Payo sa "Sariling Wikà" ("Modern" Grammar?: Views and Advices for "National Language"), 1951, written in coincidence with Surian ng Wikang Pambansa director Cirilo H.

  Panganiban.^[10]

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