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LIFE & WORKS OF RIZAL
EDUCATION AND LIFE IN EUROPE

RIZAL IN EUROPE
• RIZAL IN BARCELONA AND MADRID
1882-1887
• May 3,1883 – Rizal left the Philippine for Spain. In her first trip aboard. Rizal was very excited to learn new
things.
• He was only twenty years old and as young man, he was very observant and eager to interact with foreign
nationals.
• He rode the cruise Salvador from Manila until it reached Singapore on May 8,1882. Then on the 11th of May, he
rode the cruise Djemnah that will take him to Europe.
• June 11,1882 , the Djemnah reached Napels in Italy. He toured the city and after three days, he travelled to
Barcelona using Train. Rizal reached Barcelona on June 12,1882.
• He arrived during the summer vacation so he was able to meet up with former classmate in Ateneo.
These classmate organized a welcome party for Rizal at a coffee hose in Plaza de Cataluña. In this city ,
Rizal time to write an essay “ El Amor Patrio” (Love of Country). This essay was published on
August 20, 1882 in Diariong Tagalog where he used the pen name Laong Laan.
- EL AMOR PATRIO –
- Nationalistic essay, Rizal’s first article written on
Spain’s soil.
• November 3,1882 , Rizal decided to move to Madrid where he enrolled in Medicine and Philosophy and Letters at the
Unversidad Central de Madrid (presently the Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
• He also took lesson in painting and sculpture at the Academia de San Fernando, and classes in French, English, and German at the
Madrid Ateneo.
• June 1884, Rizal was awarded with the degree and title of Licentiate in Medicine for passing the medical examination. With
this title , Rizal was able to practice medicine.
• He continue enrolling courses that would have led to a Doctrate in medicine but the degree was not given to him because he
failed to pay the fee required to defend his thesis.
• Rizal took examinations in Greek, Latin and world history. He won the first proze in Greek and a grade of “excellent”in history.
• June 19,1885 He got the degree of Licenciado en Filosofia y Letras (Licentiate in Philosophy and Letters) from the
Universidad Central de Madrid with rating of sobresaliente.
• As a prolific writer and poet, Rizal was asked to write a poem. As a result , wrote Mi Piden Versos ( They Ask Me for Verses), a
poem which showed the sadness of the soon of art who lived on a place away from his origin.
• January 2,1884 , Rizal proposed the writing of a novel about the Philippine Society. The group
approved the project but this plan did not materialize.
• It was in Madrid that he was able to write the first half of his novel, Noli Me Tangere.
• November 15, 1890 , Rizal was exposed to liberal ideas through the masons that he met. He was
impressed with the mason’s view about knowledge and reasoning and how they value brotherhood. He
joined Masonary and became a Master Mason at the lodge Solidaridad.
• RIZAL IN PARIS AND GERMANY
1882-1887
• October 1885 to March 1886 , Rizal specialized in Ophthalmology and trained under the leading
ophthalmologist in Europe like Dr. Louis de Weckert of Paris for whom he worked as an assistant. He choose this
branch because he wanted to cure his mother’s eyes.
• In Germany, he also worked with expert ophthalmologists Dr. Javier Galezowky and Dr. Otto Becker in Heidelberge in
1886 and Dr. R. Schulzer and Dr. Schwiegger in 1887.
• Rizal then was 24 years old and already a physician, decided to go to Paris in order to acquire more knowledge in
Ophthalmology.
• He wrote the peom, “To the flowers of Heidelberg”. And spent his summer vacation in 1886 in Wilhemlsfield where he
lived with Protestant pastor Karl Ulmer to protect his ability to speak German.
• Rizal mastered the German language and wrote a paper entitled “Tagalische Verkunts “
(Tagalog Metrical Art).
• He also translate Schiller’s William Tell into Tagalog in 1886. It was also in Berlin where he finished
“Noli Me Tangere”which was published in March 21.1887 with the financial help from his friend
Maximo Viola.
• The Noli Me Tangere was Rizal’s first novel
• He used cancer as metaphor of the Philippine Society
since like a cancer: the sickness of our society
was untouched.
• Noli Me Tangere was came from Latin word
which means”Touch Me Not”. “ NOLI ME TANGERE”
• He used San Diego as the epitome of the Philippines were based on his observation in political situation on
our country and there were influences of the books that he read while he is in Europe like book of Harriet
Beecher Stowe entitled “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.
• That describe the abuses experienced by the Africans under their American masters and the book written by
Eugene Sue entitled “ The Wandering Jew”.
• RIZAL’S FIRST HOMECOMING
• August 8, 1887 , Rizal went home to Calamba to spent time with his family who were delighted to see
him again.
• He was busy by opening his medical clinic and curing the sick. He came to known as Doctor Uliman as he
was mistaken for a German.
• He’s vacation was cut short because he was targeted by fairs who were portrayed negatively in his novel
Noli Me Tangere.
• He was called to Malacañang by Gov. Gen. Emilio Terrero due to the controversy by Noli Me Tangere.
• After the review of Noli Me Tangere, it was found that the book was heretic, impious, unpatriotic,
subversive and injurious to the government of Spain in the Philippine.
• While Rizal is staying in Calamba, Governor General Emilio Terrero ordered an investigation of the
friar landholdings. The colonial government suspected that the Calamba estate might be evading the
full payment of taxes, and the public treasury department decided to check on its return by asking how
much they were paying to the administrators of the estate.
• Rizal was involved in this investigation by helping to draft an informative report on the agrarian
situation in Calamba. The tenants reported that they were losing money to the advantage of the
Dominican administrators.
• Still in Calamba, Rizal was seen as a troublemaker and a rabble-rouser. His family received death
threats on his life. Gov. Gen. Terrero requested Jose Rizal to leave the country again.
• Just before leaving Calamba, he composed a poem entitled “ Himno al Trabajo” ( Hymn to Labor)
which commemorated the elevation of Lipa, Batangas into the status of a villa under the Becerra Law
of 1888.
• He left the country for the second time on Febuary 16, 1888.
• RIZAL SECOND TRIP IN EUROPE
• May 16, 1888

-He left New York on May 13, 1888, on the city of Rome
bound for London.
-A trip to London on a board the luxurious liner of Rome.
May 24, 1888
- first destination London
- He reached Queenstown, lreland
- He got on board a ferry boat to Livepool and train for London.
- He stayed as a guest with Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor.
• The Three Reason
- To improve his knowledge on English.
- To study Antonio de Morja’s book “ Succesos De Las
Islas Filipinas” , which is in British Museum.
- London was safe from Spaniards.
• NEWS FROM CALAMBA
• Persecution of Filipino patriots who signed” Anti- friar Petition of
1888”.
• Persecution of Calamba tenants.
• Senators attacking Rizal
• Manuel Hidalgo, Saturnina’s husband was exiled to Bohol.
• Laureano Viado, his friend was arrested for possessing copies of Noli.
• Rev. Vicente Garcia ‘s favorable defense of the Noli.
REFORMISTS IN BARCELONA
• Foundation of the ASOSACION LA SOLIDARIDAD.

• President – Galicano Apacible
• VP – Graciano Lopes Jaena
• Honorary Pres – Rizal. Feb. 15, 1888
• Jaena founded the newspaper, LA SOLIDARIDAD.
• Rizal’s 1st article = Los Agricultores Filipinos ( The Filipino Farmers)
• Pen names: Dimas Alang, Laong Laan
• He wrote a pamphlet against Fray Rodriguez. “ La Vision Del Fray Rodriguez”.
• Others works
• Letter to the young women of Malolos
• Specimen of tagal folklore and two eastern fables.
Sculptures
• Prometheus bound
• The Triumph of Science over Death
• The Triumph Death over Life.
• Carvings of the heads of the Beckett sisters.
•March 10, 1889
•He left London
NEXT STOP .. PARIS, FRANCE
• March 1889: Universal Exposition

• Too many tourists in the city, so he stayed with Valentin Ventura.
• He transferred from different hotels and boarding houses.
• Visited the home of Pardo de Tavera
• Composed the story of The Monkey and The Tortoise
• He was fascinated by the Universal Exposition, especially the Eiffel
Tower on May 06, 1889
JANUARY 28, 1890
•Next stop … Brussels, Belgium

NEXT STOP … BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
• Jose albert accompanied him to Brussels. He also lived with
Jose Alejandro.
• In Brussels. He made himself busy with sculpturing,
shooting, going to gym, writing and reading, and writing
articles for the La Solidaridad,
• He was the firsts to advocate Filipinization of orthography.
HE LEFT PARIS BECAUSE
• The expensive cost of living

• That gay social life hampered his literary
works.
LETTERS FROM CALAMBA
• Calamba Agrarian Trouble.
• Increasing rents of the hacienda land by the Dominicans.
• An order from Dominicans to dispossess the Rizal Family’s lands from them.
• Persecution of tenants: Paciano, Antonio Lopez, Silvestre Ubaldo were deported to Mindoro.
• Manuel Hidalgo was banished to Bohol again.
• His made Rizal feel the urge to go home for his people, but his friends
• Blumentritt, Basa and Ponce warned him of danger
• He changed his mind of going home because he heard from Paciano that they lost the Agrarian case.
• Rizal planned to raise the case in Madrid. He plans to defend it in Spain.
NEXT STOP MADRID, SPAIN
• He was criticized by his fellow Filipinos in Madrid

for reminding them not to gamble too much for they
destroy the nation’s reputation.
• He was even called POPE instead of PEPE
LAST STOP
•Biarritz, France

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LIFE & WORKS OF RIZAL

EDUCATION AND LIFE IN EUROPE

• May 16, 1888

• Foundation of the ASOSACION LA SOLIDARIDAD.

• March 1889: Universal Exposition

•Next stop … Brussels, Belgium

• The expensive cost of living

• He was criticized by his fellow Filipinos in Madrid

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