Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera - Deserves a Second Look?
Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho (1857-1925). Filipino physician and historian. An outstanding Filipinologist who wrote notable scholarly works in various fields of Oriental and Philippine studies; language, anthropology, folklore, etc. His training and qualification as a doctor are immense. T T. H Pardo de Tavera received his licentiate in medicine at the Fa culté de Médecine de Paris and his bachelor in medicine also in the same institution. In the mid-1880s, he enrolled in École nationale des langues orientales vivantes (now Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales) and took courses under Pierre Étienne Lazare Favre. In December 1885, he received his diploma in the Malay language. One of Pardo de Tavera's book 'Plantas Medicinales de Filipinas' is an outstanding study on the different medicinal plants of the country. But as a politician, history seems to be unkind to T.H Pardo de Tavera. Perhaps he always went to the wrong side, f