1.

operate on his mother's eyes (cataract)

2.serve his people
3. find out how noli affects the natives and the spaniards alike.
4. inquire on leonor Rivera remaining silent. Rizal’s First Return to
the Philippines
When Jose Rizal came back from the places he travelled in different countries such as Europe,
his reasons are to know the effectiveness of Noli Me Tangere in the Philippines and Spanish.
Another reason is to know the reason why Leonor Rivera was not writing back anymore and to
also help his countrymen to retake their land which were taken by the friars in Biñan, Laguna.
When he came back, he performed a surgery for he’s mother’s eyes. The name of her mother is
Teodora Morales Alonso y Quintos Realonda. Rizal had cases because of his written novel, Noli
Me Tangere. For this, he was called by the governor-general. Noli Me Tangere was prohibited
because he tried to go against the faith of the state; its government and the Spanish country. He
also helped other farmers in seeking changes in the Dominican friars. For this he was became
more cooperative and he had more adherence to his countrymen. He also put a stand on his
beliefs and never lost his love for his mother and family. For me, the return was a big part of his
life because he strengthened his patriotism more.

Jose Rizal decided to study abroad for many reasons. The main reason was
so he

his brother Paciano.So that Rizal can concentrate in studying and attain a
highJose

Rizal studied abroad because the educational system abroad was far
morebetter than that of his own country, the Philippines. Abroad, he will
have mhis own country, the knowledge he gained can be used to help his
country men.
Ferdinand Blumentritt (1853-1913) was an outstanding scholar from the small Bohemian town of Leitmeritz in then
Austria-Hungary. He was the closest foreign friend of the Philippine national hero José Rizal and is still the most
important symbol in the bilateral history between Austria and the Philippines and beyond, between the Philippines
and Central Europe. These two men of very different characters shared many common ideas. They were both able to
communicate not only in their respective mother tongues German and Tagalog, but also in Spanish and English.
Through the years they wrote a huge number of letters; their extensive correspondence is still today an important
source for basic research of Philippine historians. The former Foreign Minister Carlos P. Romulo praised Prof.
Blumentritt rightfully as “a distinguished Austrian whose name and memory is secured in Philippine history.”

Ferdinand Blumentritt
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Ferdinand Blumentritt, was a teacher, secondary school principal in Litoměřice, lecturer, and author of articles and
books in the Philippines and its ethnography. Wikipedia

Born: 10 September 1853, Prague, Czech Republic

Died: 20 September 1913, Litoměřice, Czech Republic
Adolf Bernhard Meyer (11 October 1840, Hamburg – 22 August 1911, Dresden) was
a German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. He served for nearly thirty
years as director of the Königlich Zoologisches und Anthropologisch-Ethnographisches Museum (now
the natural history museum or Museum für Tierkunde Dresden) in Dresden. He worked on comparative
anatomy and appreciated ideas from evolution, and influenced many German scientists by translating
the works of Darwin and Wallace into German in 1858. Influenced by the writings of Wallace with whom
he interacted, he travelled to Southeast Asia, and collected specimens and recordLife and
work[edit]
Fedor Jagor dealt with ethnography inspired by a visit to Paris. On behalf of the Museum für
Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History) in Berlin, he traveled extensively to South and Southeast Asia
collecting for the museum. From 1859 to 1861, he was in India, East Asia and the Pacific Islands. He stayed on
the island of Java and the rest of the Indonesian archipelago from 1873 to 1876 and from 1890 to 1893.[1]
Since 1869, Jagor was a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory (Berliner
Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte), and on January 9, 1879 he became a member of
the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[1]
Jagor had an extensive correspondence with Rudolf Virchow and held his travel experiences and observations
established in several books. He bequeathed his ethnographic collections to the Ethnological Museum of
Berlin. His fortune and art collection were donated to the city of Berlin. His tomb is located after the reburial at
the Southwest Cemetery of Berlin in Stahnsdorf (Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf).[1]

Writings (selection)[edit]

 "Singapore, Malacca, Java: Travel Sketches" Singapore, Malacca, Java: Reiseskizzen. J. Springer, Berlin
1866
 Travels in the Philippines. London: Chapman and Hall. 1875.

ed his observations from the region. Wilhelm Joest

Wilhelm Joest was a German ethnographer and world traveler. He studied sciences and languages at the universities
of Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin, and afterwards took a study trip to North Africa. Wikipedia

Born: 15 March 1852

Died: 25 November 1897, Vanuatu
Parents: Eduard Joest

Wilhelm Joest (15 March 1852, Köln – 25 November 1897) was a German ethnographer and world traveler.
He studied sciences and languages at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin, and afterwards took a
study trip to North Africa. From 1876 to 1879 he traveled throughout North and South America, conducting
scientific investigations from Canada southward to Patagonia, during which, he collected numerous
ethnographic, anthropological and zoological items.[1]
From 1879 to 1881 he journeyed widely in southern and eastern Asia — from Ceylon he traveled
through India to the Himalayas, then accompanied the British army in the midst of the Second Anglo-Afghan
War. He studied the customs and languages of the inhabitants of the Malay
Archipelago (mainly Borneo, Ceram and Sulawesi) as well as those of the natives of Formosa. He spent
considerable time with the Ainu of Japan, and in 1881 traveled
from Vladivostok through Manchuria, Mongolia and Siberia on his way back to Germany.[1][2]
In 1883 he traveled extensively in South Africa, followed by a journey northward along the eastern coast of
Africa. In 1889 he returned to South America, where he conducted scientific studies in Venezuela and
the Guianas, largely in the region between the Orinoco and Maroni Rivers.[2] He succumbed to illness and died
in 1897 after departing the Santa Cruz Islands (part of the Solomon Islands) during a Pacific expedition,[1] and
 is buried on Ureparapara of the Banks Islands (part of Vanuatu).[3] After his death, his collections were left to his
sister, Adele Rautenstrauch. The Rautenstrau
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer,
editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health. Wikipedia

Born: 13 October 1821, Świdwin, Poland

Died: 5 September 1902, Berlin, Germany
Nationality: Prussian
Education: Frederick William University (1839–1843)
Known for: Cell theory, Cytopathology, Biogenesis, Virchow's triad

Rudolf Virchow Biography.com

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Rudolf Virchow was a German doctor, pathologist and anthropologist well-known for his
achievements in developing the cell theory. Credited as the "Father of Pathology," Virchow went
on to make several advancements in public health. In 1869, he founded the German Society for
Physical Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory.

Fact Check

Some Rizal friends were interested in Virchows' phrase of

his obituary for Dr. José Rizal (on top of my page 15:"Rizals
stay in Heidelberg and Wilhelmsfeld, part II"), and they
would like to read the whole obituary spoken by Prof.
Rudolf Virchow in 1897:
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 At the annual general meeting of the Berlin Society for
Anthropology, Ethnology and Pre-history in 1897, no less a
personage than Professor Rudolf Virchow, world-famous
founder of cellular pathology, spoke in memory of the "highly
esteemed ordinary member, Dr. José Rizal from Luzon,
Philippines", taken by death from the Society for
Anthropology. Virchow in his obituary:
"Don José Rizal was one of our members 10 years ago. He
spoke at the meeting on 23 April 1887 on the art of Tagalog
poetry. Although already a doctor of medicine, he was
completely filled with patriotic ideas. The unhappy fate of
his homeland under the rule of the Spaniards and the
oppression of an all-powerful clergy made up the content of
his literary products, mostly dressed in the garb of belles
lettres. When, after a lengthy voluntary exile, he returned
home, he accordingly became the object of incessant
persecution. The growing discord in the Philippines and the
ultimate outbreak of the revolution, not yet quelled even
now, were largely ascribed to him. He was finally arrested
and interned in Mindanao; when he was brought back from
there to Manila, simultaneously with the replacement of the
Governor, regarded as too lenient, by General Camilio de
Polavieja, the direst rumours immediately began to spread
as to the fate awaiting him. This concern was converted all
too soon into reality: on 30th December, without judicial
sentence and apparently without proof of guilt, as public
opinion has it, he was shot.