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- 2. • JOSE RIZAL WENT TO PARIS AND GERMANY • TO SPECIALIZED OPHTHALMOLOGY AFTER COMPLETING HIS STUDIES • SERVED AS ASSISTANT TO THE FAMOUS OCULISTS • IN BERLIN, CAPITAL OF THEN UNIFIED GERMANY • MET AND BEFRIENDED SEVERAL TOP GERMAN SCIENTISTS • DR. FEODOR JAGOR, DR. ADOLPH B. MEYER, • DR. HANS MEYER AND DR. RUDOLF VIRCHOW
- 3. IN GAY PARIS (1885-86) • STOPPED AT BARCELONA TO VISIT MAXIMO VIOLA • SEÑOR EUSEBIO COROMINAS, EDITOR OF THE NEWSPAPER. • STAYED AS SOJOURNED FOR ABOUT FOUR MONTHS • AN ASSISTANT TO DR. LOUIS DE WECKERT • HE RAPIDLY IMPROVED HIS KNOWLEDGE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY • PARDO DE TAVERAS (TRINIDAD, FELIX AND PAZ) • JUAN LUNA AND FELIX RESURRECCION HIDALGO
- 4. • AT LUNA’S STUDIO THEY SPENT HAPPY HOURS • JUAN LUNA, A FAMOUS FILIPINO PAINTER • HE THEN IMPROVED HIS OWN PAINTING TECHNIQUE • HELPED LUNA BY POSTING AS A MODEL • “THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA”, AN EGYPTIAN PRIEST • “ THE BLOOD COMPACT” HE POSED AS SIKATUNA • TRINIDAD PARDO DE TAVERA POSED AS LEGAZPI.
- 5. THE BLOOD COMPACT THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA
- 6. RIZAL AS MUSICIAN • COULD EITHER PLAY AN INSTRUMENT OR SING • THE HOME OF THE PARDO DE TAVERAS • AND ALSO IN THE JUAN LUNA’S STUDIO • RIZAL HAD NO NATURAL APTITUDE FOR MUSIC • LEARNED THE SOLFEGGIO, THE PIANO, VOICE CULTURE • FLUTIST IN VARIOUS IMPROMTU REUNIONS OF FILIPINOS • “ALIN MANG LAHI” AND THE “ LA DEPORTATION”
- 7. IN HISTORIC HEIDELBERG • A MEMBER OF THE CHESS PLAYER’S CLUB • CHESS GAMES, BEER-DRINKING, FRIENDLY SABER DUELS • BOARDING HOUSE NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG • HE WORKED AT THE UNIVERSITY EYE HOSPITAL • DR. OTTO BECKER, A DISTINGUISHED GERMAN OPHTHALMOLOGIST • DR. BECKER AND PROF. WILHELM KUEHNE
- 8. • FAMOUS HEIDELBERG CASTLE, THE ROMANTIC NECKAR RIVER, • THE THEATER, SOME OF THE OLD CHURCHES • LIGHT BLUE, WAS HIS FAVORITE FLOWER • THE GARDEN OF HIS HOME IN CALAMBA • A POEM, “TO THE FLOWERS OF HEIDELBERG” • WITH PASTOR KARL ULLMER AT THE WILHELMFELD • HE SPENT A THREE-MONTH SUMMER VACATION
- 12. • A MOUNTAINOUS VILLAGE NEAR THE HEIDELBERG • HE THEN STAYED AT THE VICAR’S HOME • WHO BECAME HIS GOOD FRIEND AND ADMIRER • ENDEARED TO THE PASTOR’S WIFE, ETTA, FRITZ • PANGS OF SADNESS WHEN ENDED HIS SOJOURN • WROTE TO PASTOR EXPRESSING HIS GRATITUDE • WROTE TO FRIEDRICH, SON OF PASTOR ULLMER
- 13. FIRST LETTER TO BLUMENTRITT • WROTE A LETTER TO PROFESSOR FERDINAND BLUMENTRITT • DIRECTOR OF THE ATENEO OF LEITMERITZ, AUSTRIA • SENT THE BOOK AND WAS ENTITLED ARITHMETICA • PUBLISHED IN TWO LANGUAGES – SPANISH AND TAGALOG • RUFINO BALTAZAR HERNANDEZ WAS THE AUTHOR • BLUMENTRITT AND RIZAL BECAME BEST OF FRIENDS
- 14. FIRST CENTENARY OF HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY • WAS FORTUNATE TO BE SOJOURNING IN HEIDELBERG • THE BEAUTIFUL CITY AND IT’S HOSPITABLE PEOPLE
- 15. IN LEIPZIG AND DRESDEN • ATTENDED SOME LECTURES AT UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG • PROFESSOR FRIEDRICH RATZEL, A FAMOUS GERMAN HISTORIAN • AND DR. HANS MEYER, A GERMAN ANTHROPOLOGIST • SCHILLER’S WILLIAM TELL FROM GERMAN INTO TAGALOG • ALSO TRANSLATED HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES • WORKED AS PROOF-READER IN PUBLISHER’S FIRM • DIRECTOR OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM
- 16. RIZAL WELCOMED IN BERLIN’S SCIENTIFIC CIRCLES • SCIENTIFIC ATMOSPHERE AND ABSENCE OF RACE PREJUDICE • DR. FEODOR JAGOR, CELEBRATED GERMAN SCIENTIST- TRAVELER • AND AUTHOR OF TRAVELS IN THE PHILIPPINES • DR. RUDOLF VIRCHOW, PROFESSOR OF DESCRIPTIVE ANATOMY • DR. W. JOEST, A NOTED GERMAN GEOGRAPHER • DR. KARL ERNEST SCHWEIGGER, A FAMOUS GERMAN OPHTHALMOLOGIST
- 17. • MEMBER OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY, THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY • AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF BERLIN • HIS KNOWLEDGE WERE RECOGNIZED BY EUROPE’S SCIENTIST • FIRST ASIAN TO BE ACCORDED SUCH HONORS • DR. RUDOLF VIRCHOW WHO RECOGNIZED RIZAL’S GENIUS • WROTE A SCHOLARLY PAPER ENTITLED TAGALESCHE VERKUNST • PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY THE SAME YEAR
- 18. RIZAL’S LIFE IN BERLIN • TO GAIN FURTHER KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE OPHTHALMOLOGY • FURTHER HIS STUDIES OF SCIENCES AND LANGUAGES • TO OBSERVE POLITICAL CONDITIONS OF GERMAN NATION • TO PUBLISH HIS NOVEL, “NOLI ME TANGERE” • RIZAL LED A METHODICAL AND FRUGAL LIFE • PRACTISED SPEAKING GERMAN, FRENCH AND ITALIAN
- 19. RIZAL ON GERMAN WOMEN • WROTE A LETTER TO HIS SISTER, TRINIDAD • SERIOUS, DILIGENT, EDUCATED, FRIENDLY, THE GERMAN WOMEN • NOT GOSSIPY, FRIVOLOUS, QUARRELSOME LIKE SPANISH WOMAN • WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES WERE MORE INTERESTED… • HOW THEY DRESS THAN HOW MUCH THEY KNOW • PROBABLY COMMAND THE RESPEST OF ALL MEN • ACCORDINGLY, JOSE RIZAL ADVISED HIS SISTER TRINIDAD
- 20. GERMAN CUSTOMS • KEEN OBSERVER OF CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE • THE CHRISTMAS CUSTOM DELIGHTED HIM MOST • SELF-INTRODUCTION TO STRANGERS IN A SOCIAL GATHERING
- 21. RIZAL’S DARKEST WINTER • DURING BLEAK WINTER HE LIVED IN POVERTY • DIAMOND RING FROM SATURNINA WAS IN PAWNSHOP • HE ONLY ATE ONE MEAL A DAY • BREAD, WATER OR SOME CHEAP VEGETABLE SOUP • PACIANO TRIED DESPERATELY TO RAISE A MONEY • RIZAL STARVED AND SHIVERED WITH WINTRY COLD • AND HIS HEALTH SUDDENLY BROKE DOWN