Pedro Paterno

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

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

During the Philippine Revolution, he called together with Emilio Aguinaldo, the first provisional Philippine Republic in the caves of Biak -na- Bato from, the Republic of Biak -na- Bato in 1897, and later became the chief negotiator of the Pact of Biak -na- Bato led. His political peaked Pedro Paterno, when he was deputy prime minister of the first Philippine Republic (May 7, 1899 to November 13, 1899 ). He was captured in April 1900, received in July an amnesty, after which he worked with the Schurman Commission, which earned him the charge of collaboration today. In December, he founded together with Cayetano Arellano, Benito Legarda, Pardo de Tavera and Florentino Torres, the conservative political party Partido Federal. From 1907 on, he was a deputy in the Philippine Assembly.

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