| Item Call Number |
FP00032 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
FP00032 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - FP00032
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Ferdinand Schneider Blumentritt
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| General Note |
- General note - Blumentritt (1853-1913), Rizal''s loyal friend and correspondent, made several significant studies on the Philippines. He was born in Prague. Son of a Leitmeritz professor, after whom he was named, and Amalia Schneider of Prague, a province of Bohemia, Ferdinand Blumentritt read extensively on travel and history of Latin America and the Far East even in his youth. When he taught in the Municipal Athenauem of Leitmeritz, where he was later named Director of the Discipline of Geography and History, he devoted his studies to Philippine history and culture. His first work on the Philippines,Die Chinesen auf des Philippinen(The Chinese in the Philippines), was followed by Hollandische Angriffe auf die Philippinen im XVI, XVII, und XVIII Jakrnhundert (Dutch Attacks in the Philippines in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries). In 1882, he published Bibliotheca Philippina, a bibliography of 1670 entries said to be the most extensive listing made at that time. He made the first known ethnographic map of Mindanao and later of the whole archipelago, and compiled the first systematic ethnographic dictionary of the Philippines. Blumentritt was a good friend of the Filipino propagandists in Spain, especially Jose Rizal. He understood their cause and showed keen interest in their crusade. He contributed articles to the periodicals La Solidaridad, El Filipino, Filipinas Ante Europa, & La Vanguardia, shedding light on the culture of the Filipinos who were being looked down upon by some Spanish writers like Quiopquiap (Pablo Faced). He became President of the "International Association of Filipinologists" founded by Rizal in 1889. Blumentritt was born on 10 September 1853, and died in Leitmeritz on 20 September 1913. His wife was Rosa Muller and their three children were: Friedrich, Dolores, and Konrad. Photo shows the German scholar whom Dr. Jose P. Rizal befriended by correspondence.
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| Additional Physical Form Available Note |
- Additional physical form available note - With prints
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - Circa 1890
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Austrians
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1890
- Focus term - bohemia
- Focus term - corrrespondent
- Focus term - czechoslovakia
- Focus term - decorations
- Focus term - europeans
- Focus term - prague
- Focus term - renacimineto filipino
- Focus term - rizal''s friends
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