Joaquin Gonzalez (politician)
| Dr. Joaquín González | |
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July 22, 1853 Baliuag, Bulacan, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Died | September 21, 1900 (aged 47) Malate, Manila, Philippine Islands |
Joaquín González (July 22, 1853 - September 21, 1900) was a Filipino politician and a member of the Malolos Congress that wrote the Malolos Constitution, the first Philippine constitution, after the country declared independence from Spain in 1898. He was one of two elected delegates representing the province of Pampanga, the other being Jose Rodriguez Infante. Along with Felipe Calderon y Roca, the main author of the constitution, Dr. González was part of a committee that took part in the debates that went article by article from October 25 to November 29, 1898.
Dr. González was a Spanish mestizo born out of the union of Fausto López (from Valladolid, Spain) and María Amparo González y de los Ángeles (from Baliuag, Bulacan). He was trained as a Doctor of Medicine in Spain at the Universidad de Valladolid and the Universidad Central de Madrid (now the Complutense University of Madrid). He later attended the Ophthalmology Institute of Dr. Wecker in Paris, France, to specialize in eye diseases. It is said that José Rizal worked for some time in the same institute though the two Filipinos never met.
On October 19, 1898, Dr. González was designated as the first Rector/President of the Universidad Cientifico-Literaria de Filipinas, the forerunner of the University of the Philippines by Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo. The university had faculties of civil and criminal laws, as well as medicine and surgery. He taught legal medicine, toxicology and public hygiene.
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