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Teodoro Agoncillo | |
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 Official portrait fromNational Academy of Science and Technology | |
| 8th Chairperson of the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of History | |
| In office 1963–1969 | |
| Preceded by | Guadalupe Fores-Ganzon |
| Succeeded by | Oscar M. Alfonso |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Teodoro Andal Agoncillo (1912-11-09)November 9, 1912 |
| Died | January 14, 1985(1985-01-14) (aged 72) Manila, Philippines |
| Alma mater | University of the Philippines Manila (BA,MA) |
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| Awards | National Scientist of the Philippines |
Teodoro Andal Agoncillo (November 9, 1912 – January 14, 1985) was a Filipino historian from the 20th century. He and his contemporary,Renato Constantino, were among the first Filipino historians renowned for promoting a Filipinonationalist historiography. Agoncillo was a professor at theUniversity of the Philippines (UP) and chaired the UP Department of History from 1963 to 1969. His seminal work,The Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan (1956), recounts the early phase ofPhilippine Revolution led byAndrés Bonifacio'sKatipunan. He also authoredHistory of the Filipino People, a standard textbook first published in 1960. In 1985, Agoncillo was posthumously named aNational Scientist of the Philippines.
Agoncillo was born inLemery,Batangas to Pedro Agoncillo and Feliza Andal, who both came from landed families in the province. Through his father, Agoncillo is related toDonFelipe Agoncillo, the Filipino diplomat who represented the Philippines in the negotiations that led to theTreaty of Paris (1898),[1] and DoñaMarcela Agoncillo, one of the principal seamstress of the Philippine flag.
Agoncillo obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from theUniversity of the Philippines inManila, in 1934, and a master's degree in the arts from the same university the following year. He earned his living as a linguistic assistant at the Institute of National Language and as an instructor at theFar Eastern University and theManuel L. Quezon University. In 1956, he published his seminal work,Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan, a history of the 1896Katipunan-led revolt against Spanish rule and its leader,Andres Bonifacio.[2] He garnered acclaim for this book, as well as criticisms from more conservative historians discomfited by the work's nationalist bent.
In 1958, Agoncillo was invited to join the faculty of the Department of History of hisalma mater, the University of the Philippines. He remained with the university until his retirement in 1977, chairing the Department of History from 1963 to 1969. After retiring from UP, Agoncillo taught Filipino history as a visiting professor at theInternational Christian University inMitaka, Tokyo, Japan, for one year from 1977 to 1978. Philippine PresidentDiosdado Macapagal named Agoncillo as a member of theNational Historical Institute in 1963. He served in this capacity until his death in 1985. Agoncillo was chair of the History Department in the University of the Philippines at the same time period that his cousin, General Abelardo Andal, served as Commander (Chair) of theReserve Officers' Training Corps of the same university.
He was named National Scientist of the Philippines in 1985 for his distinguished contributions in the field of history. Agoncillo was also among the few academics who held the rank of University Professor, an academic rank given to outstanding faculty members with specialization in more than one of the traditional academic domains (Science & Technology; Social Sciences; and Arts & Humanities), at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Despite Agoncillo's controversial tone and for his perceived leftist bent, his book,History of the Filipino People,[3] first published in 1960, remains a popular standard textbook in many Filipino universities, as are many of Agoncillo's other works.Gregorio Zaide, Teodoro Agoncillo, Reynaldo Ileto andRenato Constantino stand as the most prominent 20th-century Filipino historians to emerge during the post-war period.
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