Teodoro Agoncillo
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Teodoro Andal Agoncillo was a 20th-century Filipino
Filipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 historian
Historian
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. He and his contemporary Renato Constantino
Renato Constantino
Renato Constantino was an influential Filipino historian. He was a known leftist historian of the Philippines. He is the father-in-law of political commentator Randy David.-Works:*The Philippines: A Past Revisited...

 were among the first Filipino historians renowned for promoting a distinctly nationalist point of view of Filipino history (nationalist historiography). He was also an essayist and a poet
Poet
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Born in Lemery
Lemery
-People:* Nicolas Lemery , French chemist* Henry Lemery , Martinique politician...

 Batangas
Batangas
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, Agoncillo obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of the Philippines
University of the Philippines
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 in 1934 and a master's degree in the arts from the same university the following year.
 
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