Pascual_H._Poblete
Pascual H. Poblete
Filipino writer and linguist
Pascual H. Poblete (Filipino: Pascual Poblete Hicaro; May 17, 1857—February 5, 1921)[1] was a Filipino writer, journalist, and linguist, remarkably noted as the first translator of José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere into the Tagalog language.[2]
Poblete was well known for organizing the semi-clandestine short-lived earlier Partido Nacionalista which existed from August 28, 1901, until 1907. He was also a member of Unión Obrera Democrática Filipina, the first-ever labor union federation in the Philippines, and was one of the founding and pioneering members of the Philippine Independent Church.
He and Marcelo H. del Pilar founded in 1882 the Diariong Tagalog, the first bilingual newspaper in the Philippines. He edited the Tagalog section while Marcelo H. del Pilar did the Spanish section. Poblete is popularly referred as the "Father of the Revolutionary Philippine Newspaper" and "Father of Tagalog Newspaper".