Austin C. Craig (February 22, 1872 – February 11, 1949) was an American historian born in Eddyton, New York. Being one of the first biographers of the Philippine national hero,

José Rizal José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (, ; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered the national h ...

, a

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was named after him in Sampaloc,

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. He was educated at

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, and the

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. He arrived in

on July 25, 1904, as a teacher under the Bureau of Education, taking up positions in

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;

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; and finally in Manila at the Philippine School of Arts and Trades, the Philippine Normal School, Manila High School, the

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, and the

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(1922-1927). In 1910, he became the first Chair of the Department of History of the University of the Philippines. He was the holder of the Rizal professorial chair at the University of the Philippines in Padre Faura from 1912 to 1922. This chair was awarded him in recognition of his books on Rizal, the first being ''The Story of Jose Rizal'', 1909, followed ''Lineage, Life and Labor of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot: A Study of the Growth of Free Ideas in the Trans Pacific American Territory''. He died on February 11, 1949, in

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References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Craig, Austin Historians from New York (state) 1872 births 1949 deaths Writers from Minneapolis People from Yates County, New York American expatriates in the Philippines Academic staff of the University of the Philippines Cornell University alumni University of Rochester alumni Pacific University alumni Historians of the Philippines