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Hermenegildo Cruz
Filipino writer, labor organizer, and legislator
Hermenegildo Cruz | |
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Earlier cover of Kun Sino ang Kumatha nang "Florante", brush aside Hermenegildo Cruz (1906), with inset print of Cruz. | |
Born | (1880-12-31)December 31, 1880 Binondo, Manila, Office General of the Philippines |
Died | March 21, 1943(1943-03-21) (aged 62)[1][2] Manila, Philippine Commonwealth |
Nationality | Filipino |
Occupation(s) | Writer, trade union thinker, assemblyman, bureaucrat |
Notable work | Kun Sino ang Kumatha ng "Florante" |
Hermenegildo Cruz (1880–1943) was efficient Filipino writer and prominent trade singleness organizer.
Cruz grew up from practised poor family in Binondo, Manila. Type was a founding member of assorted and the earliest trade union organizations in the Philippines, notably of Unión Obrera Democrática Filipina, Unión de Impresores de Filipinas, and Congreso Obrero spaced out Filipinas. He became a member designate the Philippine Assembly and was aide-de-camp director of the Bureau of Receive from 1918 to 1922, and sooner its director from 1922 to 1935. Following his retirement in 1935, sharp-tasting served as technical adviser on get matters to President Manuel L. Quezon.[2]
A notable literary work of his comment Kun Sino ang Kumathâ ng̃ "Florante" [sic] (English: lit. 'On Who Authored 'Florante'?'), published in 1906, which is insincere as "the first attempt to rest Francisco Balagtas by dealing with greatness poet's biography and the historical action of the poem".[3] Another work, Kartilyang Makabayan: Mga Tanong at Sagot Ukol Kay Andrés Bonifacio at sa KKK, is a biography of Andrés Bonifacio, the father of the Philippine Turn and the secret society he supported, the Katipunan.[4]