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What was Zamenhof's profession apart from inventing Esperanto?

  • He was a lawyer

  • He was an ophthalmologist

  • He was a professor of Linguistics

  • He was a surgeon

Answer

L.L. Zamenhof was an ophthalmologist, as well as the creator of the language Esperanto. He was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1859, and died in Warsaw, Poland in 1917. Zamenhof was a polyglot, speaking over 20 languages, and he was inspired to create Esperanto as a way to help people communicate across language barriers.
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