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Rizal in Europe Report
Rizal in Europe Report
EUROPE
-His journeys and experiences
Report of:
Karen Nicole F. Estal and Jamille Anne D. Estolas
FIRST TRIP TO
EUROPE
- Paciano and Uncle Antonio
May 1,1882
- left the Philippines without
permission from his parents; a
secret only to his parents but not
to his friends and other relatives
- Rizal was the only indio on the
Salvadora
Salvadora
May 9, 1882
- arrival of Rizal in
Singapore
- Stayed at Hotel dela
Paz
- He received royal
treatment-lodging,visits
to centers, museums and
establishments
-Transferred to
the
Djemnah
- befriended the
Frenchmen on
board so he
could improve
his French
June 2, 1882
- arrived at Suez Canal
- quarantined for 24 hours
- Blocked by the remains of a
damaged ship;delayed for four
days
- Arrival at Fort Said
- Rizal thus traveled for 47 days
or about 1 months
A photograph of the Suez canal
from Rizals album
Barcelona
June 15, 1882
- did not have a good impression
- lodged at Calle De San Pablo at
Fonda de Espana
- Summer vacation; could not enroll
*Amor Patrio- His first essay wrote in
Europe at 21 y/o
- Signed as Laong Laan- prepared
long since or predestined
- published in the no. 20,August 1883
issue
* He was invited to every forum that
tackled the conditions of the
Philippines
Madrid
(October 3,1882)
- to continue education
- opportunity to expose the realities in
the Philippines
- Circulo Hispano- Filipino had been
founded; with 30 members,20 were
students
-- Rizal contributed to their
magazine
- Rizals pension arrived irregularly
which made him very homesick
- For his mother: Me Piden Versos(
They ask me for verses)- recited the
poem during New Years Eve
reception of Madrid Filipinos
Paris
(June 9,1885)
Heidelberg
(February 7)
- arrived in 1886
- Boarding house with German Law students,
made him a member of Chess Players Club
- Few days later, transferred to a boarding
house near the University of Heidelberg
- Worked at University Eye Hospital under
direction of Dr. Otto Becker(German
ophthalmologist)
- In Germany, I see only militarism, and
there are potatoes everywhere. At night, I
eat potatoes and cold meat
- mornings: ophthalmology, afternoons:
studying German language
- February 14, 1886-visited the interior of the
famous castle in Heidelberg
- To the Flowers of Heidelberg
Leipzig
Berlin
(November 1)
- He met Dr. Feodor Jagor, a German scientist,
traveler and author of Travels in the Philippines
- Introduced to Dr. Rudolf Virchow, a German
anthropologist and his son, Dr. Hans Virchow, a
professor of descriptive anatomy
- Dr. Wilhelm Joest, a noted German geographer
* frugal life in Berlin
--assistant in the clinic of Dr. Schweigger, a wellknown German ophthalmologist;
at night, attended lectures in the University of Berlin;
leisure time- touring around, observing the peasants.
* Finished the manuscript of Noli Me Tangere on
February 21, 1887
--after publication, Rizal and Viola agreed to visit
places in Europe
-left Berlin by train on May 11, 1887
Dresden
- Rizal and Viola went to the regional floral
exposition
Visited Dr. Adolph Meyer
In the Museum of Art, they beheld the
painting of Prometheus Bound
Leitmerizt, Bohemia- for the first time,
Rizal met Blumentritt, an Austrian linguist
and director of Ateneo de Leitmeritz,
Austria(1889-1895)
Blumentritt, Rizals very close friend;
started when Rizal sent a book, Aritmetica
to Blumentritt (friendly exchanges)
Blumentritt called Rizal as the greatest
Filipino & the greatest of the Malayan
race
Vienna, Austria
- May 20,1887 at Hotel Metropole and visited interesting
places in the city
- left on a river boat
Rheinfall
- May 27, 1887-traveled to Munich to personally taste its
beer( the best beer)
- Ulm Cathedral, the tallest building in all of Germany & the
world then,with hundred steps
- Waterfalls of Germany(the most beautiful in Europe)
FIRST HOMECOMING IN
CALAMBA
homecoming on August 8
Rizal opened a medical clinic
His fame spread; called as Doctor Uliman
900 pesos earned in a few months
Opened a gymnasium
However, failed to see Leonor Rivera
- The hacienda owner never contributed for the town fiesta, education of tenants
children and for improvement of agriculture