(1864)
Fiery Member of the Malolos Congress
A
physician, academician, and journalist,
Del
Rosario was appointed one of the professors of the faculty of medicine of the University
Cientifico-Literaria de Filipinas, which was created by an act of Congress
on
With the renewal of the Filipino’s
struggle for liberation during the American occupation, Del Rosario joined the
fiercely pro-independence newspaper la independencia as one of its staff
writers. Under the pseudonym “Juan Tagalog,” he wrote essays, which reflected
his intense nationalistic ideas and sentiments. Together with his brilliant
fellow writers, he helped keep alive the fire of independence in the articles
published in the paper, thereby provoking the Americans to suppress it. Despite
being banned by the American censors, however, copes of the paper still managed
to come out under very noses in
La Independencia had kept moving its place of
publications due to the Americans drive to crush the republic. It died a
natural death following the assassinations of Antonio Luna in
It
is not clear what happened to Del Rosario after the Filipino-American War.
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