John N. Schumacher

John "Jack" Norbert Schumacher (born June 17, 1927 – May 14, 2014) was an American-born Filipino Jesuit historian and educator known for his work exploring the Catholic clergy's role in the 1896 Philippine revolution in ''Revolutionary Clergy'': ''The Filipino Clergy and the Nationalist Movement, 1850–1903'', first published in 1981.

Schumacher was born in Buffalo, New York. He became a naturalized Filipino citizen in 1977.

His body of work includes ''The Propaganda Movement, 1880–1895: The Creation of a Filipino Consciousness, the Making of the Revolution'' (1973); ''Making of a Nation: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Nationalism'' (1991); ''Father Jose Burgos: A Documentary History'' (1999); and ''Growth and Decline: Essays on Philippine Church History'' (2009).

Schumacher served as editor-in-chief of the ''Philippine Studies'' journal from 1975 to 1978. Provided by Wikipedia