José Rizal

Born

June 19, 1861

Died

December 30, 1896 (aged 35)

Known as

writer, linguist, ophthalmologist, painter, political activist, poet

José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered to be a national hero of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement in the 1880s, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.

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