Rizal sent Aritmetica (Arithmetic) book to Blumentritt which

German Customs

With Pastor Ullmer

At Wilhelmsfeld

Reasons Why Rizal

Stayed in Berlin

Outside of Rizal’s working hours,

he visited his friends like:

“The Death of Cleopatra”

– where Rizal posed as an Egyptian priest

La Deportacion

also known by the title, El Deportado

composed by Jose Rizal, July 1892 in Dapitan

Rizal was enchanted by Berlin because of its scientific atmosphere and the absence of race prejudice.

FEBRUARY 3, 1886

Dr. Otto Becker

NOVEMBER 27, 1870

CHAPTER 7

He worked at the University Eye Hospital under the direction of Dr. Otto Becker, distinguished German ophthalmologist.

Rizal arrived in Heidelberg, a historic city in Germany famous for its old university and romantic surroundings.

Rizal sent Aritmetica (Arithmetic) book to Blumentritt which was published in 2 languages – Spanish and Tagalog – by the University of Santo Tomas Press in 1868. The author was Rufino Baltazar Hernandez.

Blumentritt became the best friend of Rizal.

Rizal stayed for 2 months and a half.

On October 29, he went to Dresden, where he met Dr. Adolph B. Meyer, the Director of the Anthropological and Ethnological Museum

Rizal spent a three-month summer vacation at Wilhelmsfeld where he stayed at the place of a Protestant pastor, Dr. Karl Ullmer. The pastor has a wife and two children named Etta and Fritz.

Some of the German customs Rizal admired:

On Yuletide season, people will select a pine tree from the bushes and adorned it with lanterns, papers, lights, dolls, candies, fruits, etc.

Self-introduction to strangers in a social gathering.

To gain further knowledge of ophthalmology

To further his studies of science and languages

To observe the economic and political conditions of the German nation

To associate with famous German scientists and scholars

To publish his novel, Noli Me Tangere.

He told Enrique Lete that he “learned the solfeggio, piano, and voice culture in one month and a half”.

Life in Berlin

“TO THE FLOWERS OF HEIDELBERG”

“IN GAY PARIS” (1885-86)

“Rizal

as Musician”

“The Blood Compact”

– Rizal posed as Sikatuna

THERE HE MET

“PARIS

TO BERLIN”

(1885-87)

Maximo Viola

– a medical student and a member of a rich family of San Miguel, Bulacan

TRINIDAD PARDO DE TAVERA

JUAN LUNA

Rizal’s Darkest Winter

Go to my country, go, O foreign flowers, 

sown by the traveler along the road, 

and under that blue heaven 

that watches over my loved ones, 

recount the devotion 

the pilgrim nurses for his native sod! 

Go and say  say that when dawn 

opened your chalices for the first time 

beside the icy Neckar, 

you saw him silent beside you, 

thinking of her constant vernal clime. 

Say that when dawn 

which steals your aroma 

was whispering playful love songs to your young 

sweet petals, he, too, murmured 

canticles of love in his native tongue; 

that in the morning when the sun first traces 

the topmost peak of Koenigssthul in gold 

and with a mild warmth raises 

to life again the valley, the glade, the forest, 

he hails that sun, still in its dawning, 

that in his country in full zenith blazes.

First Letter to Bluementritt

In Leipzig and Dresden

Some Scientists Rizal Met

German Women

“IN

HISTORIC HEIDELBERG”

Alin Mang Lahi

Kundiman composed by José Rizal

Alin mang lahi, insinasanggalang

Sa lupit ang kanyang lupang tinubuan

Tuloy pinaghahandugan

Ng buhay at dugo kung kailangan 

Ang kamatayan man, kung saka-sakali

Igiginhawa ng mga kalahi

Tatanggapin ng may ngiti

Kasaliw ang tuwang di mumunti

Nguni’t pagkasawing-plad yata

Ng katagalugang napapanganyayaI

bukod pa sa ibang umaaba

Lalong nagbibigay hapis ang ibang 

kapwa

Sabagay di kulang sa pupuhunanin

Lakas, dunong, tapang, yaman ay 

gayundin

Aywan kung bakit at inaalipin

Ng bawa’t lahing makasuno natin

“RIZAL WELCOMED IN BERLIN’S SCIENTIFIC CIRCLES”

great master of the brush; Rizal helped him by posing as model in Luna’s paintings.

Rizal had no natural aptitude for music, and this he admitted.

He studied music only because many of his schoolmates at Ateneo were taking music lessons.

La Deportacion

Cautivo entre mil cadenas cual un traidor, cual un traidor

Solo lloro mis penas por mi dolor, por mi dolor

Avecesen mi ilusion, la libertad, la libertad

Solo ves en la prison la realidad, la realidad

La luz del dia nunca vere

La no dia sombria siempre estare, siempre estare

Sueño de amores venid ya ver

Por mis dolores, por mis dolores a ver me morir

(Repeat)

“The Blood Compact”

“The Death of Cleopatra”

The winter of 1886 in Berlin was his darkest winter.

He lived in poverty because no money arrived from Calamba and he was flat broke.

He could not pay his landlord and he was eating only one meal a day.

His clothes were old and threadbare.

His health broke down due to lack of proper nourishment.

This is one of the most memorable days in the life of Rizal. 

April 22, 1886

Rizal became famous at Heidelberg for his talent from playing chess.

Rizal sent a letter to his sister, Trinidad, dated on March 11, 1886. In his letter, Rizal expressed his high regard and admiration for German womanhood. Rizal said that German woman is serious, diligent, educated and friendly.

July 31, 1886 – Rizal wrote his first letter to Professor Ferdinand Blumentritt who is the Director of the Ateneo of Leitmeritz, Austria.

 Blumentritt is an Austrian ethnologist and he has an interest in the Philippine language,

August 14, 1886 – Rizal arrived in Leipzig

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

He befriended Prof. Friedrich Ratzel, a famous historian, and Dr. Hans Meyer, German anthropologist.

Dr. Feodor Jagor – German scientist-traveler and author of Travels in the Philippines

Dr. Rudolf Virchow – famous German anthropologist

Dr. W. Joest – German geographer

Dr. Karl Ernest Schweigger – famous German ophthalmologist

Rizal wrote a fine poem entitled “A Las Flores de Heidelberg” (To the Flowers of Heidelberg)

because he was fascinated by the blooming flowers along the Neckar River, which is the light blue flower called “forget-me-not”.

After studying at the

Central University of Madrid,

Rizal, who was then 24 yrs old,

went to Paris to acquire more

knowledge in ophthalmology.

November 1885 – Rizal was living in Paris

Señor Eusebio Corominas – editor of La Publicidad

Dr. Louis de Weckert

– a leading French ophthalmologist

where Rizal worked as an assistant to.

Don Miguel Morayta

– owner of La Publicidad and a statesman

María de la Paz Pardo de Tavera (standing 2nd from the left) with José Rizal and friends