RIZAL IN MADRID  Rizal’s return to the Philippines

CLINIC IN CALAMBA
MAY 1, 1882 – He arrived in Madrid
 First patient was his mother
Reasons: to pursue medical course  Called Dr. Uliman
 He was able to earn 5,000 php on
To observe political status in Europe
February 1888
MARCH 1883 

 He joined “Acacia”

MARCH 15, 1890

 Transferred to lodge Solidaridad

 He became Master Mason

 Lived in Paris and worked an assistant

for Dr. Louis de Weckert

1886

 Left for Germany

PURPOSE:

- to gain further knowledge on

ophthalmology
- further his studies in science and
languages
- observed economic and political
conditions of the German nations
- associate with famous German scientist
and scholars
- publish his novel, Noli Me Tangere

 Worked at the University Eye Hospital

under Dr. Otto Becker
 Wrote a poem “A los Flores de
Heidelberg”
 Wrote his first letter to Blumentritt

NOLI ME TANGERE

 Susected as French Spy

 Maximo Viola helped Rizal

1887