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Guillermo Gómez Rivera ((:ɡiˈʝeɾmo riˈβeɾa); September 12, 1936), is a Filipino multilingual author, historian, educator and linguistic scholar whose lifelong work has been devoted to the often controversial movement to (preserve Spanish culture ) as an important element of the Filipino identity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.asale.org/academicos/guillermo-gomez-rivera )〕 He is the most senior academic director of the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española of the Real Academia Española. In 1975, he was awarded the (Premio Zóbel ), the Philippines' highest literary honor bestowed on the best works in Spanish. Due to his expertise in the Spanish language as well as his knowledge of various Philippine languages, including Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Tagalog and Chabacano, he was appointed secretary of the Commission on the Filipino Language Committee of the Philippine Constitutional Convention (1971–73). As a Spanish professor at Adamson University he authored textbooks on Spanish grammar, speech and composition while working for San Miguel Corporation, a food conglomerate. He used his academic position to try to influence national debates on the question of whether or not Spanish should be retained as a compulsory subject in Philippine high schools and universities, a battle that many pro-Spanish advocates believe they had lost with the passage of the 1987 Constitution but which some Hispanists say started with the 1973 Constitution.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://filipinoscribbles.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/which-constitution-killed-the-spanish-language-in-the-philippines-a-clarification/ )〕 Having done extensive research on Spanish dances, including flamenco and Sevillanas, he formed a dance school to teach students of all ages an appreciation of Spanish culture through the dance art. He traveled to Spain to improve his skills, learning from Spanish masters of these dance forms. He is considered a maestro de flamenco in the Philippines. In an hour-long broadcast devoted to Asia on September 24, 2013, Spanish Radio and Television Corp. (RTVE) described Gómez Rivera as a "writer, journalist, historian...() has tracked incessantly Hispanic legacy in the Philippines and has recovered part of an endangered folklore. During the same broadcast, RTVE played songs from an LP of rare (Filipino compositions in Spanish ) that Gómez Rivera recorded in 1960 and reissued in 2006 after it had been digitally remastered. In addition to his contributions to Philippine literature and history, Gómez Rivera is also an accomplished linguist and polyglot. He speaks and writes fluently in his native Hiligaynon as well as in English and Tagalog. Aside from being an acclaimed master of the Spanish language in the Philippines, he is also conversant in Italian, Portuguese, Kinaray-a and Cebuano, and has made an extensive study of the Visayan and Chabacano languages. ==Biography== Gómez Rivera was born in Dingle, Iloilo on the southeast portion of Panay Island and graduated from the University of San Agustin in Iloilo City with degrees in commerce and in education. In 1967, he earned a BA from the Colegio de San Juan de Letrán. Shortly afterwards, he obtained a doctorate in Philippine Literature under the tutelage of a Jesuit academic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.asale.org/academicos/guillermo-gomez-rivera )〕 He has been a lifelong advocate of the Spanish language in the Philippines. Most of his written works argue in favor of the preservation of the Philippine-Hispanic identity of the Filipino nation, particularly the Spanish language, which was used by the founding fathers of Philippine independence in their struggle against Spain. These revolutionaries and writers included Jose Rizal. As secretary of the National Language Committee of the Philippine Constitutional Convention (1971–1973) during the presidency of Ferdinand E. Marcos, he favored Tagalog to become the basis of the country's national language. In the same convention, he joined forces with other nationalists to preserve Spanish as one of the country's official languages. Spanish, however, was later made an optional language (together with Arabic) under the Constitution of 1987 which was promulgated under the presidency of Corazón Aquino who abolished the 1973 constitution under Marcos.〔 He is a grandnephew of Guillermo Gómez Windham, a famous Filipino writer during the American colonial period. Of British descent who served as Philippine bureau of customs commissioner during the American Occupation, Gómez Windham was the first Premio Zóbel medal recipient when the award was launched in 1922. Gómez has two children: the late Marién, also an accomplished flamenco dancer, and Guillermo Gómez Ordóñez. He currently resides in Makati City. He has transformed his home into a virtual Spanish dance studio and library of Filipiniana materials. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guillermo Gómez Rivera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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