Fernando Mar%C3%ADa Guerrero
Fernando Mara Guerrero was a Filipino politician, journalist, lawyer and polyglot who became a significant figure during the Philippines golden period of Spanish literature, a period ranging from 1890 to the outbreak of World War II in 1940.
Guerrero was born to a highly educated family. His father was Lorenzo Guerrero, a painter and art teacher and his mother was Clemencia Ramirez. He began writing literature at a young age. He excelled in the facility of language and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and the Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Santo Tomas and wrote journals during the years 1898 to 1900. He became a lawyer and he taught criminology and forensic oratory. He served as chairman of the board of study at the law school La Jurisprudencia . He also became a councilor, secretary of the senate and secretary of the Philippine Independence commission. He was also a director of the Academia de Leyes . Apart from Spanish, Guerrero spoke Latin and Greek and he was an editor of El Renacimiento , La Vanguardia and La Opinion . He was a member of the First Philippine Assembly, the Academia Filipina and also became a leader of the Municipal Board of Manila. He was also a c
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