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Philosopher, Musician, Painter
About Epifanio de los Santos
Epifanio de los Santos y CristΓ³bal (7 April 1871 β 18 April 1928), sometimes known as Don PaΓ±ong or Don Panyong, was a Filipino humanist historian, literary critic, art critic, jurist, prosecutor, antiquarian, scholar, painter, musician, musicologist, philosopher, philologist, archivist, journalist, chief-editor, bibliographer, paleographer, ethnographer, biographer, civil servant and patriot. He was appointed director of the Philippine Library and Museum by Governor General Leonard Wood in 1925.
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βThere is nothing more regenerating than music.β
βThe foremost literarian in the Philippines. - Claro M. Recto.β
β...the greatest Filipino sculptor, in or outside the Philippinesβ
β,,, powerful intelligence, a formidable receptacle of culture and gifted with words.β
βGreatest of the last generation's men of letters in this country. - A. V. H. Hartendorpβ
βGreat among the Great Filipino Scholars.. He was recognized as the foremost scholar of his time.β
βHe was, in the early twentieth century, the country's most eminent biographer and literary scholar.β
βKnown as supreme in the Philippine literary world, the keenest critic and writer we ever had.- Dr. Trinidad Pardo de Tavera.β
β.was one of the most brilliant students of the Ateneo Municipal as far as humanities and natural and mathematical sciences are concernedβ
β...we were not aware of this and the seditious character of the poem (Balagtas' Florante and Laura) until Epifanio de los Santos discovered and pointed them outβ
βHe was the first highly educated and cultured Filipino to direct he attention of his countrymen to their illustrious men, and to their art, literature, poetry and music.β
β( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.β
βHe had a passion for historical accuracy, saying that it is useless to write when one is not sure of the facts. It will only be adding confusion to an already confused world.β
βAmong the new bibliographers, Sr. Epifanio de los Santos, a young scholar with great culture, stood at the head; he possessed more than 2,000 titles, some of them were very rare.β
βEpifanio de los Santos, greatest connoisseur of Filipiniana, foremost Filipino historian and biographer, and the first Filipino to become member of the Spanish Academy of Letters.β
βGenerally regarded as the foremost scholar, Don Panyong is equally deserving of popular encomium for the singular distinction which he has achieved in several other fields of human endeavour.β
βBefore the conquest, the Filipinos had a literature written in characters of their own, and its manifestation in verse constituted of maxims, proverbs, boat-songs, nuptial-songs, war songs, love-songs, and the like.β
β...as regards to teaching of languages, he (Rizal) advocated, among other things, the study of Tagalog. Since he was eight years of age, Rizal championed his native tongue as a language of its own pure type, noble and exalted" β
About Epifanio de los Santos
Epifanio de los Santos y CristΓ³bal (7 April 1871 β 18 April 1928), sometimes known as Don PaΓ±ong or Don Panyong, was a Filipino humanist historian, literary critic, art critic, jurist, prosecutor, antiquarian, scholar, painter, musician, musicologist, philosopher, philologist, archivist, journalist, chief-editor, bibliographer, paleographer, ethnographer, biographer, civil servant and patriot. He was appointed director of the Philippine Library and Museum by Governor General Leonard Wood in 1925.