Wenceslao Retana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wenceslao Retana

civil servant

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1862

Place of Birth: Boadilla del Monte, Community of Madrid, Spain

Date of Death: 22-Jan-1924

Profession: writer, biographer, journalist, publisher

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Wenceslao "Wenchesco" Emilio Retana y Gamboa (1862–1924), also known as W.E.
Retana or Wenceslao E.
Retana, was a 19th-century Spanish civil servant, colonial administrator, writer, biographer, political commentator, publisher, bibliophile, bibliographer, Filipiniana collector, Spanish filipinologist, and Philippine scholar.
Retana was a "onetime adversary" of Philippine national hero José Rizal who later became an "admirer" who wrote the first biographical account of the life of Rizal entitled Vida y Escritos del Dr.
José Rizal or "Life and Writings of Dr.
José Rizal".
Rosa M.
Vallejo described Retana as the "foremost" non-Filipino filipinologist.