Jose Rizal Life, Works and Writings  by Gregorio F. Zayde (as reprinted from the book originally published in 1970)

  DR. JOSE RIZAL, the greatest hero of the Philippines, was a many-splendored" genius.  He was richly dowered by God with superb intellectual, moral, and physical qualities.  Truly, he ranks with the world's geniuses.  He was an anthropologist, botanist, businessman, cartographer, dramatist, economist, educator, engineer, essayist, entomologist, ethnologist, farmer, folklorist, geographer, grammarian, historian, historian, horticulturist, humorist, lexicographer, linguist, musician, novelist, painter, physician, poet, philologist, philosopher, polemist, psychologist, satirist, sculptor, sportsman, sociologist, surveyor, traveler, and zoologist.   (more)