CHAPTER 7 Paris to Berlin (1885-1887)

• Rizal went to Paris and Germany in order to specialize in ophthalmology
• Rizal stopped at Barcelona to visit his friend, Maximo Viola, a medical student and a member of a rich family of San Miguel, Bulacan
• Señor Eusebio Corominas - editor of the newspaper La Publicidad and made a crayon sketch of Don Miguel Morayta, owner of La Publicidad and a statesman
• November 1885, Rizal was living in Paris where he sojourned for about four months
• Dr. Louis de Weckert ( 1852 - 1906 ) - leading French ophthalmologist wherein Rizal worked as an assistant from November 1885 to February 1886.
• January 1, 1886 - he wrote a letter to his parents that he is doing well.
• In Luna’s canvas ,“ Rizal “The Death of Cleopatra posed as an Egyptian priest. In another of Luna’s great paintings, “ ,” he posed as Sikatuna, The Blood Compact with Trinidad Pardo de Tavera taking the role of Legazpi
• November 27, 1878 - Rizal told Enrique Lete that he “learned the solfeggio, the piano, the voice culture in one month and a half”. However, he confessed that he could not sing well.
• Alin Mang Lahi (Any Race) -a patriotic song written by Rizal which asserts that any race aspires for freedom
• La Deportacion (Deportation) - a sad danza which Rizal composed in Dapitan during his exile
• February 1, 1886 - Rizal reluctantly left gay Paris from Germany
• February 3, 1886 - Rizal arrived in Heidelberg, a historic city in Germany famous for its old university and romantic surroundings
• Chess Player’s Club - a club wherein the students made Rizal as a member because of being a good chess player
• Dr. Otto Becker - distinguished German ophthalmologist where Rizal worked— University Eye Hospital
• April 22, 1886 A Las Flores de Heidelberg ” (To the Flowers of Heidelberg) - Rizal wrote a fine poem
• Wilhelmsfeld - a mountainous village near Heidelberg where Rizal spent a three-month summer vacation
• Dr. Karl Ullmer - a kind Protestant pastor where Rizal stayed, who became his good friend and admirer
• June 25, 1886 Ullmer’s home. He wrote to Pastor Ullmer to expressed hia gratitude.
• May 29, 1887 - Rizal wrote from Munich (Muchen) to Friedrich (Fritz), son of Pastor Ullmer
• July 31, 1886 - Rizal wrote his first letter in German (which he had improved after his stay with the Ullmers) to Professor Blumentritt, Director of the Ateneo of Leitmeritz, Austria
• Aritmetica ( Arithmetic ) -Rizal sent this book he mentioned and was published in two languages — Spanish and Tagalog by the University of Santo — Tomas Press in 1868. author was Rufino Baltazar the Hernandez, a native of Santa Cruz, Laguna
• The book given to Prof. Blumentritt was printed at UST in 1868 consisting of 224 pages. He was impressed by Rizal and in exchange for his generosity he reciprocated by giving him two books. This was he beginning of the beautiful long life friendship between them, Blumentritt the Austrian, became the best friend of Rizal, the Filipino.
• August 6, 1886 - the famous University of Heidelberg held its fifth centenary celebration
• August 9, 1886 - Rizal left Heidelberg
• Professor Friedrich Ratzel - a famous German historian, Rizal befriend with him
• Dr. Hans Meyer - German anthropologist, a friend of Rizal
• October 29, 1886 - Rizal left Leipzig for Dresden where he met Dr. Adolph B. Meyer, Director of the Anthropological and Ethnological Museu
• Morning of November 1, 1886 - Rizal left Dresden by train reaching Berlin in the evening
• Rizal met for the first time Dr. Feodor Jagor, celebrated German scientist-traveler and author of Travels in the Philippines, a book which Rizal read and admired during his student days in Manila.
• Dr. Rudolf Virchow - introduced to Rizal by Dr. Jagor; famous German anthropologist
• Dr. Hans Virchow - son of Dr. Rudolf Virchow, professor of Descriptive Anatomy
• Dr. W. Joest - noted German geographer
• Dr. Karl Ernest Schweigger ( 1830-1905 ) - famous German ophthalmologist where Rizal worked
• Rizal became a member of the Anthropological Society, the Ethnological Society, and the Geographical Society of Berlin, upon the recommendation of Dr. Jagor and Dr. Meyer
• Tagalische Verkunst ( Tagalog Metrical Art ) - Rizal wrote this scholarly paper in German which he read before the society in April 1887, this paper was published by the society in the same year, and elicited favorable comments from all scientific quarters
• Madame Lucie Cerdole -Rizal’s professor of French in order to master the idiomatic intricacies of the French language
• March 11, 1886 - one of Rizal’s important letters written while he was in Germany that addressed to his sister, Trinidad, this letter, Rizal expressed his high re in gard and admiration for German womanhood. The German woman, said Rizal to his sister, is serious, diligent, educated, and friendly. She is not gossipy, frivolous and quarrelsome like the Spanish woman.