2. • Ophthalmology - branch of medicine
concerned with the function and care of the
eye and with the disorders that affect it
• He wanted to cure his mother’s eye ailment
• He served as assistant to some famous
ophthalmologists of Europe
• Travels, life & custom observations,
government in Paris, Heidelberg, Leipzig and
Berlin
3. Paris to Heidelberg = 290 mi
Heidelberg to Leipzig = 211 mi
Leipzig to Berlin = 89 mi
590 mi x 1.609344 = 949.51296 km
4. With the Scientists
• Dr. Feodor Jagor, Dr. Adolph B. Meyer, Dr. Hans
Meyer, and Dr. Rudolf Virchow
5. In Gay Paris (1885-86)
• 24 years old – went to Paris for opthalmology
• Stopped at Barcelona to visit his friend
Maximo Viola
• Befriended Senor Eusebio Corominas, editor
of La Publicidad and made a crayon sletch of
Miguel Morayta, owner of the former and a
statesman
• Gave Corominas an article on the Carolines
Question
6. • Nov. 1885 – living in Paris for 4 months (1852-
1906), assited Dr. Louis de Weckert, leading
French ophthalmologist, from Nov. 1885- Feb.
1886
• He rapidly improved his knowledge of
ophthalmology as revealed by a letter to his
parents on Jan. 1, 1886
• Rizal also visits his friends such as the Family of
Pardo de Taveras (Trinidad, Felix and Paz), Juan
Luna, and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo
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8. At the studio of Luna, there they made
happy hours, helped him by posing as
model in several paintings: ‘’Death of
Cleopatra’’, ‘’Blood Compact’’.
9. Rizal as Musician
• They could sing or even play an instrument
• Nov 27. 1878, told Enrique Lete that he
learned the solfieggo, piano and voice culture.
• Played also the flute very well
• ‘’Alin mang Lahi’’ and ‘’La Deportacion’’ as
compositions
10. Historic Heidelberg
• Visited Strasbourg
• Feb 3, 1886 – arrived at Heidelberg. Lived in a
boarding house and was a good chess player
• Worked at the University Eye Hospital under
Dr. Otto Becker with lectures of Prof. Wilhem
Kuehne
• Visited Heidelberg Castle, the romantic Neckar
River, theater and old churches.
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14. ‘’To the flowers of Heidelberg’’
• 1886, spring – along the cool banks of neckar
river, ‘’forget-me-not’’ flower
• He wrote on April 22, 1886, a fine poem ‘’A las
Flores de Heidelberg
15. With Pastor Ulmer at Wilhemsfeld
• Spent a 3-month summer vacation
• Stayed at the vicarage
• Became good friends with his family
• June 25, 1886 – ended his stay and returned
to Heidelberg with gratitude.
• May 29, 1887 – wrote from Munich to Fritz
(son)
16. First letter to Blumentritt
• July 31, 1886 – wrote a letter in German to Prof.
Ferdinand Blumentritt, Director of the Ateneo of
Leitmeritz, Austria
• Rizal sent a book entitled: Aritmetica (published
by UST Press 1868 in Spanish and Tagalog)
authored by Rufino Baltazar Hernandez
• Impressed Blumentritt who in return gave 2
books
• they became bestfriends
17.
18. 5th Centenary of Heidelberg University
• UH held its 5th centenarry celebration in 8-6-
1886 (3 days before his departure)
• Wrote an entry to his diary dated the same
day
19. In Leipzig and Dresden
• 8-9-1886 – (3 days after) Rizal left, boarded
and arrived in this place on 8-14-1886 and
attended some lectures on UL on history and
psychology.
• Befriended Prof. Friedrich Ratzel & Dr. Hans
Meyer
• Rizal translated Schiller’s William Tell (story of
swiss independence)
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21. • Also translated Hans Christin Andersen’s Fairy Tales
• Cheap to live - 2 months
• Corrected some chapters of his second novel and
performed daily exercises
• Worked as proof-reader in a publisher’s firm
• 10-29 – went to Dresden where he met Dr. Adolph B.
Meyer, director of the Anthropological and
Ethnological Museum
• The Holy Mass impressed him very much
• Nov 1 – reached Berlin by evening
22. Rizal welcomed in Berlin’s Scientific
Circles
• Enchanted fir scientific atmosphere and racial
prejudice absence
• He met for the first time Dr. Feodor Jagor,
celebrated traveler and author of Travels in
the Philipppines.
• Was introduced to Dr. Rudolf Virchow, Dr.
Hans Virchow, Dr. W. Joest
• Worked in the clinic of Dr. Karl Ernest
Schweigger
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24. • Became a member of the Anthropological
Society, the Ethnological Society, and the
Geographical Society of Berlin upon
recommendation of Dr. Jagor and Dr. Meyer
• Rizal wrote a scholarly paper in German
entitiled ‘’Tagalische Verkunst’’ (Tagalog
Metrical Art) read before the society in April
1887
25. Rizal’s Life in Berlin
• Five reasons:
1. To gain further knowldege of ophthalmology
2. Improve his studies in science and languages
3. Observe the economic and political
conditions of Germany
4. Associate with famous Scientists and Scholars
5. Publish his novel, Noli Me Tangere
26. • Worked as an assistant to Dr. Schweigger and
attended lectures at UB during evenings
• Practiced French, German and Italian
languages. He took private lessons under
Madame Lucie Cerdole.
• Worked out in Berlin Gymanasium
• Made sketches and also promenading along
Unter den Linden
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28. Rizal on German Women
• One of the important letters was to Trinidad,
dated 3-11-1886 (German womanhood)
• German women: serious, diligent,
sophisticated, friendly ; Spaniards:
quarrelsome, gossipy, frivolous
• Rizal was worried
29. German Customs
• Christmas custom delighted him most
especially of the pine tree
• Self introduction to strangers in as social
gathering. (When they find nobody to
introduce him, they take their initiative to do
so by bowing, introducing and shakes their
hands)
• German code of etiquette: bad manners for a
guest to remain aloof and wait for the host.
30. Rizal’s Darkest Winter
• spent winters in many temperate countries (1886
in Berlin was his darkest).
• He lived in poverty because he didn’t receive any
money from his hometown.
• Saturnina’s ring was at the pawnshop, he can’t
pay the landlord and will have to eat only once a
day.
• Paciano tried to help but the crops failed due to
the ravages of the locusts.
• His soul cried out in despair.
