Chapter 7 PARIS TO BERLIN (1885-87)

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Chapter 7PARIS TO BERLIN (1885-87)

• Barcelona
• - stopped in Barcelona to visit, Maximo Viola
• - Befriended Eusebio Corominas editor of La
  publicidad. Don Miguel Morayta (owner)
• - Article on the Carolines Question
• In Gay Paris November 1885 (four months)
• - Worked as an assistant to Dr. Louis de
  Weckert , leading French Opthalmologist

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• Barcelona

• Maximo Viola

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• - Visited his friends Taveras, Juan Luna.
  Felix R. Hidalgo, Paz Pardo de Tavera
• - The Monkey and the Turtle Paz album JPR
  drew a series of sketches
• - spent happy hours in Lunas studio, improved
  his own painting technique and posing as model in
  several paintings
• 1. The Death of Cleopatria
• 2. The Blood Compact

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• Rizal as musician
• I learned the solfeggio, the piano, the voice
  culture in one and a half, If you could hear me
  sing, you would wish you were in Spain because my
  voice is like the braying of the asses (Letter
  to de Lete dated Nov.27, 1878)
• - Flute the only instrument Rizal could play
• - Compositions
• 1. Alin Mang Lahi 2. La Deportacion

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• Visited Strasbourg (capital of Alsace Lorraine)
• February 1,1886
• Historic Heidelberg (Historic city of Germany)
• - Lived in a boarding house with German law
  students and made Rizal a member of the Chess
  Players Club
• - Transferred near the University where he
  worked as an assistant to Dr. Otto Becker, German
  opthalmologists
• - Attended lectures of Dr. Becker and Prof.
  Wilhelm Kuehne
• - Visited scenic spots around Heidelberg

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• - Observed that the German Catholics and
  Protestants practiced ecumenism or they lived
  together in harmony and cordiality.
• -To the Flowers of Heidelberg
• a fine poem Rizal wrote on April 22, 1886
• With Pastor Ullmer at Wilhemlmsfeld
• Spent a three-month summer vacation in
  mountainous village near Heidelberg
• Stayed in the vicarage of a kind Protestant
  pastor Dr. Karl Ullmer with Etta and Fritz

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• First Letter to Blumentritt
• - Prof. Ferdinand Blumentritt, director of the
  Ateneo of Leitmeritz Austria,
• - with the letter he sent a book Arithmetica
  published in two languages Spanish and Tagalog
  by UST Press in 1868 by Rufino Baltazar
  Hernandez
• - The prof in return send Rizal a gift of two
  books which marked the friendship that lasted all
  their lives.

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• Fifth Centenaryof Heidelberg University
• In Liepzig and Dresden (two months half)
• - August 14,1886 arrived in Liepzig
• -Attended lectures at the University on history
  and psychology
• -befriended Prof. Friedrich Ratzel (German
  Historian) Dr. Hans Meyer (German Anthropologist)
• - Translated Schillers William Tell
  (German-Tagalog)
• - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
• - Corrected some chapters of his novel
• - Worked as proof-reader in a publishers firm

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• Dresden (two days sojourn)
• - met Dr. Adolph B. Meyer (Dir. of the
  Anthroplogical and Ethnological Museum)
• -heard the mass and which impresses him
• Rizal Welcomed in Berlins Scientific Circles
• - Dr. Feodor Jagor (German Scientist-traveler
  and writer of Travels in the Phillippines)
• - Dr. Rudolf Virchow (German anthropologist)
• - Dr. Hans Virchow (Prof. Descriptive Anatomy)
• -Dr. W. Joest (German Geographer)
• - Dr. Karl Ernest Schweigger (Famous
  Opthalmologist

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• - became a member of Anthropological,
  Ethnological and Geographical society (1st Asian
  to be accorded such honors)
• - Tagalische Verkunst (Tagalog Metrical Art) a
  scholarly paper written and lectured by Rizal
  before the Ethnographic society of Berlin and
  later was published by the society
• Reasons for staying in Berlin
• 1. To gain further knowledge in Ophthalmology
• 2. Further his studies of sciences and languages
• 3. Observe the economic and political conditions
  of the German nation

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• 4. To associate with famous German scientists
• 5. To publish his novel Noli Me Tangere
• - Led a methodical and frugal life
• -Worked as an assistant to Dr. Schweigger and
  attended lectures at night in the University of
  Berlin
• -Practiced speaking in German, French and
  Italian
• - Took private lessons in French under Madam
  Lucie Cerdole
• -Perform daily exercises in Berlin gymnasium

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• - Tour the countryside observing keenly the
  customs, dresses, homes and occupations of the
  peasants
• - Enjoyed promenading along Unter den Linden
• On the German Women
• She is not gossipy, frivolous, and quarrelsome
  like the Spanish women. She is not particular
  about beautiful dresses and expensive jewelry,
  though she could dress nicely like any other
  woman in the world (Letter to Trinidad dated
  March 11, 1886)

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• Now that you are still young you should strive
  to read, read and learn. You must not allow
  yourself to be conquered by indolence because it
  cost so little to cast it off(Advice to
  Trinidad)
• German Customs
• - Christmas custom - Self-introduction to
  stranger
• Rizals Darkest Winter
• The diamond ring was in the pawnshop
• Could not pay his landlord
• Scrimp eating only one meal a day
• Clothes are old and threadbare and washed them
  himself