LIFE & WORKS OF RIZAL

EDUCATION AND LIFE IN EUROPE

Jose Rizal's Journey in Europe

 Secret Departure to Spain

Persons who knows Rizal's Departure

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

 Paciano
 Antonio Rivera
 Jesuits Priest
 Close Friends

Secret Mission:
"Jose Mercado"
Secret Mission:
"To observe keenly the life and culture, languages and customs, industries and commerce,
and government and laws of the European nations in order to prepare himself in the mighty
task of liberating his oppressed people from Spanish tyranny"

 Rizal departed on board the Spanish steamer "Salvadora" bound for Singapore.

 Php 700.00 with diamond ring - given by Paciano to Rizal

 Php 35.00 - allowance per month to send by Paciano and his uncle Antonio

 He enrolled at Universidad Central de Madrid

-Medicine
-Philosophy and Letters
Secret Mission:

 He joined the Masonic Lodge Acacia in Madrid adopting the Masonic name Dimas-Alang

 Rizal went to Paris and Germany in order to specialize in Opthalmology.

 The winter of 1886 in Berlin was his darkest winter.

Secret Mission:
SIGNIFICANT PERSONALITIES
SIGNIFICANT PERSONALITIES
Maximo Sison Viola
He is known as the best friend of Jose Rizal in Europe. They work together, they visited museums,
art gallery, restaurants and stayed in hotels to work there in Europe
Don Miguel Morayta
Owner of the La Publicidad
SIGNIFICANT PERSONALITIES
Dr. Louis de Weckert
Leading French ophthalmologist
where Rizal worked as an assistant about four months
Basilio Teodoro Moran
Freemason in Acacia Lodge No. 9 of the "Gran Oriente de España" and the publisher of Diyaryong
Tagalog
Spanish Masonry
Self manifest
and
Self-improvement
SELF MANIFEST AND IMPROVEMENTS

 Took five hours of painting lessons while taking courses in medicine

 Able to get a Degree of Licentiate in Medicine and Degree of Philosophy and Letters

 Attended theatrical presentations, music and poetry recitals and book launching

 Completed his eye specialization in Germany

 He could converse in more than 10 different tongues (23 languages and dialects)

 Excelled at martial arts, fencing, sculpture, painting, teaching, anthropology, journalism,

among other things.

 Rizal learned how to play piano, solfeggio, voice culture in month and a half.

 Member of a chess club from the students of university of heidelberg

 Degree of Licentiate in Medicine in 1884

 Degree of Philosophy and Letters in 1885

 He joined and won a Greek competition

 Member of the Berlin Ethnological society and the Berlin Anthropological Society

 Studied ophthalmology in Germany

 25 year old Rizal completed his eye specialization under the renowned Prof. Otto Becker in
Heidelberg

WORKS AND WRITINGS

WORKS AND WRITINGS
Leaving Europe
Farewell Again

 After 5 years of memorable adventure in Europe, he returned to the Philippines in August

1887 and practiced medicine in Calamba.

 Established a clinic, gymnasiums, and discouraged cockfights and gambling

 Rizal failed to see Leonor Rivera, his loved one.

 Rizal’s novel caused uproar among the friars. Anonymous threats against Rizal’s life were
received by his parents. Feeling uneasy with the situation, they advised him to go away for
his life was in danger.