PARIS to BERLIN

1885-1887
TOPICS GAY PARIS
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2 RIZAL AS MUSICIAN

3 HISTORIC HEIDELBERG

4 LEIPZIG AND DRESDEN

5 RIZAL’S LIFE IN BERLIN

• Rizal went to Paris and Germany in
order to specialize in opthalmology.

• cure his mother’s eye

ailment.
TOP GERMAN SCIENTISTS

DR. RUDOLF VIRCHOW

DR. HANS MEYER

DR. ADOLPH B. MEYER

DR. FEODOR JAGOR

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In Gay Paris (1885-86)

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 Rizal went to Paris to acquire

more knowledge in opthalmology

 Visit his friend, Maximo Viola

 Senor Eusebio Corominas

 La Publicidad
• Rizal was living in Paris,
where he sojourned for
about four months.

• Worked as an assisstant to Dr.

Luis de Weckert (1852-1906)

• Leading French
opthalmologist from Nov.
1885 – Feb. 1886.
January 1, 1886

“ I am doing well, I know now

how to perform all the
operations; I only need to
know what’s going on inside
the eye, which requires much
practice.
YOUR TITLE

FELIX RESURRECCION HIDALGO

JUAN LUNA
PARDO DE TAVERAS
PAZ PARDO DE TAVERA

The Monkey And The Turtle

T h e D e a t h O f C l e o p a t r a

T h e Blood Compact

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RIZAL AS MUSICIAN
Music played an important part
in all Filipino reunions in:
Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and
other cities in Europe.

• No Natural aptitude for music

• November 27, 1878 Enrique Lete

If you could hear me sing, you

would wish you were in Spain
because my voice is like the
braying of the asses
A flutist in various impromptu reunions of
Filipinos in Paris

Alin Mang Lahi ( Any Race)

La Deportacion ( Deportation)
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HISTORIC HEIDELBERG
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 February 1, 1886 Visited Strasbuorg  February 3, 1886

 Rizal left Gay (capital of Alsace  He arrived at
Paris for Germany Lorraine) Heidelberg

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 University Eye  Prof.Wilhelm  Heidelberg Castle

Kuehne  Romanic Neckar
Hospital  Proffessor in the
River
 Theater
 Dr. Otto Becker University  Old Churches
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Forget – me – not (spring flower)

A p r i l 2 2 , 1 8 8 6
A Las Flores de Heidelberg
 Dr. Karl Ullmer
 Etta and Fritz

June 25, 1886

Letter to Pastor Ullmer

“I thank you very much once more. You may also recieve, when
you are abroad, the same treatment and friendship I have found
among you; and if being a foriegner, I can do nothing for you in a
foreign country, I can be of some service to you in my homeland,
where you will always find a good friend, If I do not die, of course.
The joy of being understood by other people is so great that one cannot
easily forget it. You understood me too, in spite of my brown skin,
which to many people is yellow, as if that were puzzling or absurd.”
Letter to Fritz
May 29, 1887

“Tell the good Frau pastor, your dear mama,

that when I reach home, I shall write to her, I shall
never forget how good she, as well as your papa, had
been to me when I was an unknown stranger without
friends and recommendations.....I shall never forget
Wilhelmsfeld with its hospitable parish house.”
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 Aritmetica
August 6, 1886
July 31,  Spanish and
Tagalog Fifth Centenary
1886
 University of Santo of Heidelberg
Wrote the Thomas
University
Press 1868
first letter to
 Rufino Baltazar
Blumentritt Hernandes
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LEIPZIG AND DRESDEN

 August 9, 1886
1
 August 14, 1886
 He attended lectures in University of
Leipzig on history ang psychology
2  Professor Friedrich Ratzel
 Dr. Hans Meyer

Schillers William Tell

3 Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
October 29, Rizal left Leipzig for Dresden
Dr. Adolph B.Meyer\
4 November 1, Rizal left Dresden
YOUR TITLE Scientific Athmosphere and
absence of race prejudice

Tagalische
Verkunst Dr. Feodar Jagor

RIZAL
Anthropological WELCOMED 1859-60
Society and IN
Geographical Society BERLIN’S
of Berlin SCIENTIFIC
CIRCLES Dr. Rudolf Virchow

Dr. Karl Ernest

Schweigger (1830-1905) Dr. Hans Virchow
Dr. W. Joest
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RIZAL’S LIFE IN BERLIN

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To gain further knowledge of
o p t h a l m o l o g y

To further his knowledge of science

The Five reasons a n d l a n g u a g e s
why Rizal lived in
this famous To observe the economic had
political conditions of the
capital unified of G e r m a n n a t i o n

G e r m a n y To associate with famous

German scientists and
s c h o l a r s
To publish his novel Noli Me
T a n g e r e
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Rizal led a methodical and

fugal life in Berlin
Unter den Linden

Worked as an He performed
assistant in daily exercises in
the clinic of Dr. a Berlin
Schweigger gymnasium to
develop his body
He attended
lectures in
the University He took private
of Berlin lessons under a
proffesor of French,
Madame Lucie
Cerdole
Rizal on Berlin Women

Rizal lettered his sister Trinidad on March 11, 1886

that women in Germany is serious, diligent, educated
and friendly. Not gossipy, frivilous and quarrelsome.

“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 it off”
German
Customs

The Christmas customs of the Germans 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
this particular case, but are a 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 by the family observance.”
German
Customs

Another interesting German customs observed by Rizal.

o Self-introduction to strangers in a social gathering

According to the German code of etiquette, it is bad

manners for a guest to remain aloof, ang wait for his host or
hosters to make the proper introduction.
 Rizal’s Darkest Winter

 Spent winters in many temperate countries

 Lives in poverty
 Diamond ring of his sister Saturnina was in pawnshop
 Eating only one meal a day
 Old and threadbare clothes

 Rizal starved in Berlin

 Health broke down due to lack of proper nourishment
 Begun to cough and feared he was going to be sick with
tuberculosis
 His soul cried out in despair.
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