Wenceslao "Wenchesco" Emilio Retana y Gamboa (September 28, 1862 – January 21, 1924), also known as W.E. Retana or Wenceslao E. Retana, was a 19th-century
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
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polymath
A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific pro ...
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He was a civil servant, colonial administrator, writer, biographer, political commentator, publisher, bibliophile, bibliographer,
Filipiniana
Filipiniana, or originally Filipiñana, based on the definition by Isagani Medina from "Collection Building: Filipiniana", in his ''In Developing Special Library Collections, Filipiniana: Proceedings'' (November 1992), are Philippine-related bo ...
collector, Spanish
filipinologist, and
Philippine
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
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scholar. Retana was a "onetime adversary" of Philippine national hero
José Rizal
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (, ; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered the national h ...
who later became an "admirer" who wrote the first biographical account of the life of Rizal entitled ''
Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal'' or "Life and Writings of Dr. José Rizal".
[Roces, Alejandro R]
Rizal's Death Anniversary
Roses & Thorns, Opinion, The Philippine Star, December 29, 2009, philstar.com[Yoder, Robert L]
from footnotes of Chapter 18: Rizal the Man, joserizal.info Rosa M. Vallejo described Retana as the "foremost" non-Filipino filipinologist.
[Vallejo, Rosa M]
(...) "Wenceslao Emilio Retana y Gamboa, foremost foreign Filipinologist" (...)
Bibliographical Works, Philippine Bibliographies, ncca.gov.ph
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Spanish civil servants
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Spanish male writers
Male biographers
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19th-century Spanish writers
1862 births
1924 deaths
19th-century male writers
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