Gregorio Nieva

Gregorio Nieva (1880-1951) was a politician, businessman, eminent publisher and journalist in the pre-war era. His command of both Spanish and English enabled him to excel in the Philippine Assembly as well as in the 1st Philippine Independence Mission to the USA. He is best known for his refined and intelligent prose in the Philippine Review magazine, which he published and edited between 1916-1922. Gregorio Nieva is also known as the first Filipino Rotarian, having co-founded the Rotary Club of Manila, along with Alfonso SyCip and Gabriel LaO.

The monthly featured English-language articles which called for independence and a Spanish-language section called "La Revista Filipina", which continued the erudition and scholarly bent of the then defunct Cultura Filipina which ceased publication in 1915. Such was the magazine's prestige that Nieva was invited to the 33rd annual dinner of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in 1919 and Nieva's aticles were reprinted in the New York Times, Saturday Evening Post and Editor and Publisher. According to his biographer, E. Arsenio Manuel, only his peer Maximo Kalaw could surpass the prestige of his journalistic output, but no paper could parallel the success of Philippine Review which reached a worldwide audience. Nieva was also regularly invited to represent the Philippines in the World Press Congress in 1921 and 1926, where he presented the papers "The Press in the Achievement of Human Purpose in the Orient" and "News Communications in the Philippines. Source:en.wikipilipinas.org

Official Directory of the Philippine Assembly (1912, p. 92-93, Images 109-110)

Official Directory of the Senate and of the House of Representatives (1917, p. 199-200)

Men of the Philippines: A Biographical Record of Men of Substantial Achievement in the Philippine Islands, Volume 1 (1931, p. 223-224)

Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the New Philippines (1936, p. 442-443, Images 152-153)

Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1970)

Who's Who in the Philippines: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men of the Philippines, Volume II 1940-1941 (1940), by Franz J. Weissblatt (p. 130, Image 178)

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