PARIS

TO
BERLIN

(1885-87)
◾After completing his studies in Madrid, Rizal went to Paris and Germany to
specialise in ophthalmology.

◾He particularly close this branch of medicine because he wanted to cure his
mother’s ailment.

◾ He served as an assistant to the famous oculist of Europe.

◾ In Berlin, capital then unified Germany, he met and befriended several TOP
German scientists, Dr.feodor Jagor, Dr. Adolph B. Meyer, Dr. Hanz Meyer, and
Rudolf Virchow.

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◾His merits as a scientist were recognizer by eminent scientists of Europe.

IN GAYPARIS (1885-86)
- After studying at the Central University of Madrid, Rizal, who was then 24
years old, went to Paris to aquire more knowledge in ophthalmology.

◾Maximo Viola- a medical student from and a member of rich family San
Miguel, Bulacan.
◾Senor Eusebio Corominas- the editor chief of the newspaper La Publicidad.
◾Don Miguel Morayta- the owner of La Publicidad.
◾ November 1885- Rizal was living in Paris, whereje sojourner for about four
months.
◾ Dr. LouisdeWeekert (1852-1906) – leading French ophthalmologist where
Rizal worked as an assistant.

- Outside of his working hours, Rizal relaxed by visiting his friends, such as
the family of Pardo De Taveras (Trinidad, Felix, and Paz), Juan Luna and
Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo.

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JUAN LUNA

- The great master of brush ;Rizal helped him by posing as model in several
paintings.

His canvass:

 “The Death of Cleopatra” ( inset picture)

- Rizal posed as an Egyptian priest. In another of Luna’s great paintings.

 “The blood Compact “

- He posed as Sikatuna, with Trinidad Pardo De Tavera taking the role of
legazpi.

RIZAL AS MUSICIAN

◾Rizal has no natural aptitude for music, and this he admitted. He only
studied music because many of his schoolmates AT ateneo were taking
music lessons.
 ◾ In a letter dated November 27,1878, he told Enrique Lete that he “
learned the Solfeggio, piano and voice culture in one month and a half.
◾ He was flautist in various impromptu reunions of Filipinos in Paris.

Some of his compositions are:

“ Aling mang Lahi” (any race)

“La Deportacion” (Deportation)

IN HISTORIC HEIDELBERG

◾ February 1,1886 – Rizal left Gay Paris for Germany

◾ February 3,1886 – he arrived in Heidelberg.

Rizal was a good chess player, so the students in University of Heidelberg

made him a member of the chess player’s club

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◾ Dr. Otto Becker – a distinguished German Ophthalmologists. He work at
the University of Eye Hospital.

“TO THE FLOWERS OF HEIDELBERG “

 In the spring of 1886, Rizal was fascinated by the blooming flowers along the cool
backs of the Neckar River.

- His favourite flower the light blue “forget-me-not”

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- On April 22,1886, he wrote a fine poem “A Las Flores De Heidelberg “

Go to my native land, go, foreign flowers,

Sown by the traveler on his way,
And there, beneath its azure sky,
Where all my afflictions lie;
There from the weary pilgrim say
What faith is his in that land of ours!

Go there and tell how when the dawn,

Her early light diffusing,
Your petals first flung open wide;
His steps beside chill Neckar drawn,
You see him silent by your side

Upon its Spring perennial musing,

Say how when morning’s light,
All your fragrance stealing,
Whispers to you as in mirth,
Playful songs of Love’s delight,
He, too, murmurs his love’s feeling
In the tongue he learned at birth.

That when the sun of Koenigsthul’s height

Pours out its golden flood,
And with its slowly warming light
Gives life to vale and grove and wood,
He greets that sun, here only apraising,
Which in his native land is at its zenith blazing.

And tell there of that day he stood,

Near to a ruin’d castle gray,
By Neckar’s banks, or shady wood,
And pluck’d you beside the way

Tell, too, the tale to you addressed,

And how with tender care,
Your bending leaves he press’d
Twist pages of some volume rare.
Bear then, O flowers, love’s message bear;

My love to all the love’d one’s there,

Peace to my country – faithful land –
Faith whereon its sons may stand,
And virtue for its daughters’s care;
All those beloved creatures greet,
That still around home’s altar meet.

And when you come home unto its shore,

This kiss I now on you bestow,
Fling where the winged breezes blow;
That borne on them it may hover o’er
All that I love, esteem, and adore.

But though, O flowers, you come unto that land,

And still perchance your colors hold;
So far from this heroic strand,
Whose soil frist bade your life unfold
Still here your fragrance will expand;
Your soul that never quits the earth
Whose light smiled on you at your birth.

WITH PASTOR ULMER AT WILHELMSFELD

◾ Rizal spent three months in wilhelmsfeld,a mountain ls village near

Heidelberg.
◾ Dr. Karl Ulmer – a kind protestant pastor

FIRST LETTER TO BULMENTRITT

◾ July 3, 1886
Rizal wrote his first letter in German to Professor Ferdinando
Blumentritt, director of the Ateneo of Leitmeritz, Austria.
◾ Rizal sent the boon entitled Aritmetica
◾ Blumentritt, the Austria, became the best Friend of Rizal, the Filipino.