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- 1. Spain (1882-1885)
Paris (1885-1886)
Berlin (1886-1887)
Grand Tour of Europe (1887)
- 2. RIZAL IN PARIS1885-1886
- 3. Stopover at Barcelona
To visit Maximo Viola, a medical student and a member of a rich
family of San Miguel, Bulacan.
Befriended SeorEusebioCorominas, editor of newspaper La
Publicidadand a statesman.
Made a crayon sketch of Don Miguel Morayta, owner of La Publicidad
and a statesman.
- 4. November 1885- February 1886
Rizal worked as an assistant to Dr. Louis de Weckert, leading
French Ophthalmologist.
- 5. January 1, 1886
With respect to the study of the ailments of the eyes, I am doing
well. I know now how to perform all the operations; I only need to
know what is going on inside the eye, which requires much
practice.
- 6. Friends...
Outside of his working hours at Dr. Weckerts clinic, Rizal relaxed
by visiting his friends, such as the family of the Pardo de Taveras
(Trinidad, Felix and Paz), Juan Luna, and Felix Resurreccion
Hidalgo.
- 7. Paz Pardo de Tavera was a pretty girl, who was engaged to
Juan Luna. On the album of this girl, Rizal drew a series of
sketches on the story of The Monkey and the Turtle.
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- 9. Parisian Studio of Juan Luna
- 10. Rizal posing as Egyptian priest in The Death of
Cleopatra
- 11. Juan Lunas Blood Compact: Rizal posed as
Sikatuna
- 12. Rizal as Musician
Rizal had no natural aptitude for music, and this he
admitted.
By sheer determination and practice, Rizal came to play the flute
fairly well, and so became a flutist in various impromptu reunions
of Filipinos in Paris.
It is said that he even composed some songs, particularly
AlinMangLahi, a patriotic song which asserts that any race aspires
for freedom, and a sad danza, La Deportacion, which he composed
later on in Dapitan during his exile.
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- 14. Paris to Germany
Rizal reluctantly left gay Paris on February 1, 1886 for
Germany.
He visited Strasbourg (capital of Alsace Lorraine) and other German
border towns.
On February 3, 1886, Rizal arrived in Heidelberg, a historic city
in Germany famous for its old university and romantic
surroundings.
He became a member of the Chess Players Club.
- 15. University of Heidelberg
- 16. Dr. Otto Becker
Rizal worked at the University Eye Hospital under the direction of
Dr. Otto Becker, distinguished German ophthalmologist, and attended
the lectures of Dr. Becker and Prof. WilheimKuehne at the
University.
- 17. Forget-Me-Not
In the spring of 1886, Rizal was fascinated by the blooming flowers
along the cool banks of the Neckar River.
Among them was his favorite flower the light blue
forget-me-not
- 18. To the Flowers of Heidelberg
The beautiful spring flowers reminded Rizal of the blooming flowers
at the garden of his home in Calamba.
April 22, 1886, in a mood of homesickness, he wrote a fine poem A
Las Flores de Heidelberg.
- 19. To Pastor Karl Ullmer at Wilhelmsfeld,June 25, 1886
... I thank you very much once more. You may also receive, when you
are abroad, the same treatment and friendship as I have found among
you; and if being a foreigner, 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.
- 20. First Letter to Blumentritt
July 31, 1886: Rizal wrote his first letter in German (which he had
improved after his stay with the (Ullmers) to Professor Ferdinand
Blumentritt, Director of the Ateneo of Leitmeritz, Austria.
He had heard of this Austrian ethnologist and his interest in
Philippine languages.
- 21. 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 book 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.
- 22. Aritmetica
Published in two languages Spanish and Tagalog by the University of
Santo Tomas Press in 1868.
Authored by RufinoBaltazar Hernandez, a native of Santa Cruz,
Laguna.
- 23. Fifth Centenary of Heidelberg UniversityAugust 6,
1886
For its fifth centenary the famous University of Heidelberg
celebrated its Festung this morning, and we attended. I liked the
picture better than the original itself. There were, however, many
elegant and brilliant costumes, Bugmuller, the famous student of
Heidelberg, was dressed as Frederick the Victorious; Lieberman, as
a gentleman of the seventeenth century; Gregoire, wolf of Schwahen,
etc....
- 24. ... Last night was Schlorfest. When will these gaieties
enjoyed in this poetic and beautiful city come back? When will the
foreigners return there? When shall I return after I shall have
left? Inquire the fate of the molecules of water that the sun
evaporates.
- 25. Some fall as dew on the bosoms of the flowers; others are
converted into ice and snow; others into mud or swamp or torrential
cascade they are not lost but continue to live in nature. Will my
soul have the fate of water never being lost into
nothingness?
- 26. Heidelberg to Leipzig
August 9, 1886, Rizal left Heidelberg.
August 14, 1886, Rizal arrived in Leipzig.
He attended lectures at the University of Leipzig on history and
psychology.
He befriended Prof. Friedrich Ratzel, a famous German historian,
and Dr. Hans Meyer, German anthropologist.
- 27. In Leipzig
Rizal translated Schillers William Tell from German into Tagalog so
that Filipinos might know the story of that champion of Swiss
independence.
He also translated into Tagalog Hans Christian Andersens Fairy
Tales.
- 28. Leipzig to Dresden
Rizal found out that the cost of living in Leipzig was cheapest in
Europe so that he stayed here for two months and a half.
Because of his knowledge of German, Spanish and other European
languages he worked as proof-reader in a publishers firm, thereby
earning some money.
On October 29, 1886, Rizal left Leipzig for Dresden.
- 29. In Dresden
Rizal met Dr. Adolph B. Meyer, Director of the Anthropological and
Ethnological Museum.
Staying for two days in the city, Rizal heard Mass in a Catholic
Church.
November 1, 1886: Rizal left Dresden by train, reaching Berlin in
the evening.
- 30. Spain (1882-1885)
Paris (1885-1886)
Berlin (1886-1887)
Grand Tour of Europe (1887)
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