PARIS

to
BERLIN

In Gay Paris,

In November 1885, he worked as an assistant to Dr. Louis

de Weckert, a leading French opthalmologist.

He wrote a letter to his parents which says, I am doing

well. I know how to perform all the operations; I only need
to know whats going on inside the eye, which requires
much practice.

At the studio of Luna, Rizal spent many Happy hours. He

helped Luna by posing in several paintings.

In Gay Paris,

Rizal as a musician, In a letter he told Enrique

Lete, he said that learned the solfeggio, the
piano and the voice culture in one month and
a half. However he confessed that he could
not sing well.

It is said that he even composed some songs,

particularly Alin mang Lahi (Any Race)

In Historic Heidelberg,

Rizal reluctantly left Gay Paris

on February 1, 1886 for
Germany.

On February 3, 1886, he
arrived in Heidelberg, a
historic City in Germany
famous for its old university
and romantic surroundings.

In Historic Heidelberg,

German law students made him a member

of the Chess Players Club.

He worked at the University Eye Hospital

under he direction of Dr. Otto Becker, and
attended the lectures of Doctor Becker
and Prof. Wilhelm Kuehne.

A Las Flores de Heidelberg

(To the Flowers of Heidelberg)
Go to my native land, go, foreign flowers.
Sown by the traveller on his way.
And there, beneath its azure sky.
Where all my affections 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,
Saw how when the mornings light,
All your fragrance stealing,
Whispers to you as in mirth,
Playful songs of Loves delight,
He, too, murmurs his loves feeling
In the tongue he learned at birth.

That when the sun of Keenigstuhls height

Pours out his golden flood,
And with its slowly warming light
Gives life to vale and grove and wood,
He greets that sun, here only upraising,
Which in his native land is at its zenith blazing.
And tell there of that day he stood,
Near to a ruind castle gray
By Neckars banks, or shady wood,
And pluckd you from beside the way
Tell, Too, the tale to you addressed,
And how with tender care,
Your bending leaves he pressed
Twixt pages of some volume rare

Bear then, O flowers, loves message

bear;
My love to all the lovd ones there,
Peace to my country ---- fruitful land ---Faith whereon its sons may stand,
And virtue for its daughters care;
All those beloved creature greet,
That still home around altars meet.
And when you come unto its shore,
This kiss I now on you bestow,
Fling where the winged breezes blow;
That borne on them it may hover oer
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 first bade yourself unfold
still here your fragrance will expand;
Your soul that never quits the Earth
Whose light smiled on you at your birth.

With Pastor Ullmer at

Wilhelmsfeld,
Rizal spent a three month summer vacation at

Willhelmsfeld, a mountainous village near

Heidelberg. He stayed in the vicarage of a kind
protestant pastor, Dr. Karl Ullmer who became his
good friend.

Later, Rizal wrote from Munich to Friedric, son of

Pastor Ullmer : Tell the good Frau Pasto, your dear
mama, that when I reach home, I shall write to her. I
shall never forget how good she was, as well as your
Papa, had been to me when I was an unknown
strange, without friends and recommendations. . . I
shall never forget Wilhelmsfeld with its hospitable
parish house.

First Letter to Blumentritt

On July 31, 1886 Rizal wrote his first letter in German to professor
Ferdinand Blumentritt, Director of the Ateneo of Leitmeritz,
Austria. In his letter he said:

I have heard that you are studying our language,

and that you had already published some work about it; permit me to
send you a valuable bookwritten written by my countryman in our
language. The Spanish version is mediocre because the author is
only a modest writer but the Tagalog part is good, and it is precisely
the language spoken in our province.
------The book rizal had sent was a book entitled Aritmetica
(Arithmetic) by the university of Santo Tomas Press in 1868. The
author was Rufino Baltazar Hernandez.
------Blumentritt the Austrian, became the best friend of Rizal

In Leipzig and Dresden,

Rizal arrived at Leipzig on August 4, 1886.

He attended some lectures at the University of Leipzig on history and

psychology

He befriended Professor Friedrich Ratzel, a famous German historian, and Dr.

Hans Meyer, german anthropologist.

Rizal found out that the cost of living in Leipzig was cheaper so he stayed for
two months and a half.

He worked as a proof reader therefore earning some money.

On October 29, he left Leipzig for Dresden where he met Dr. Adolf B. Meyer

In Leipzig and Dresden,

Rizal heard mass in a Catholic church and it impressed him so much for he
wrote on his diary : Truly I have never in my life heard a mass whose music
had greater sublimity and intonation.

Rizal welcomed in Berlins

scientific circles

Rizal was enchanted by Berlin because of its scientific atmosphere and the absence
of rare prejudice. In this city, he came in contact with great scientists.

1. Dr. Feodor Jagor- celebrated german scientist-traveller and author of

Travels in the Philippines , a book which Rizal admired.
2. Dr. Rudolf Virchow- famous german anthropologist
3. Dr. Hans Virchow- son of Rudolf a professor of Descriptive Anatomy
4. Dr. W. Joest- noted German geographer.
5. Dr. Karl Ernest Schweigger- a famous German ophthalmologist in whose
clinic Rizal works for.

Rizal wrote a scholarly people in German, entitled Tagalische Verkunst (Tagalog

Metrical Art) which he read before the society in April 1887.

Rizals Life in Berlin

He lived in this famous capital of Germany for five Reasons:

1. to gain further knowledge
2. to further his studies of sciences and languages
3. to observe the economic had political conditions of the German nation
4. to associate with famous German scientists and scholars
5. to publish his novel, Noli me Tangere

Rizal on German Women

One of the important letters Rizal made when he was in Germany was addressed to
his sister Trinidad, it says:

the German women, is serious, diligent, educated, and friendly. She is not gossipy,
frivolous and quarrelsome like the Spanish woman. She is not particular about beautiful
dresses and expensive jewelry, though she could dress nicely like any other women in
the world.

Rizal regretted that in the Philippines, the women are more interested in how they
dress than in how much they know.

Accordingly, Rizal advised her sister, Trinidad: Now that you are still young you
should strive to read, read and learn. You must not allow yourself to be conquered by
indolence because it costs so little to cast-off.

German Customs

Rizal admired German customs which he observed well.

The Christmas custom of the German delighted him most. Of this yuletide custom
he wrote: On Christmas eve, the people take from the bushes a pine tree,
selecting one which must not only be straight, but also must have leaves that do
not fall in spring; I mean that dry leaves are not leaves at all in tis particular case,
but are kind of small needle. It is adorned with lanterns, papers, lights, dolls,
candies, fruits, etc. ; and shown at night to the children. Around this tree is made
the family observance.

Another interesting German custom observed by Rizal is self-introduction to

strangers in social gathering.

Rizals Darkest Winter

The winter of 1886 in Berlin was his Darkest winter

During this bleak winter he lived in poverty because no money

arrived from Calamba, the diamond ring Saturnina gave him was
in the pawnshop.

He could not pay his landlord, he had to scrimp eating only one
meal a day with cheap foods.

Out in far away, Calamba, Paciano tried so desperately to raise

money. But the crops had failed due to the ravages of locusts.

Rizal was so worried that he might catch tuberculosis that his

soul cried out in despair.

THANK YOU!