GROUP 2
Franz Bongcawil
Vyron Sombero
Draece Tadulan
Apipah Ditucalan
Yasser Hadji Ahmad

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 Rizal went to Paris and Germany in order to specialize in ophthalmology.
He chose this branch because he wanted to cure his mother’s eye ailment.
 Rizal traveled to Leipzig and attended some lectures at its local university. After which he went to Berlin to further study ophthalmology and other languages, to get familiar with the scenic Germany, to be part of the scientific community, and to finish his novel, Noli Me Tangere.
 Rizal visited European countries to study the people’s way of life and adopt ideas and programs that would benefit his countrymen.

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 Maximo Viola
- was a physician, municipal councilor, and a supporter of the Propaganda Movement.
- known as the man who saved for posterity and financed the printing of Jose Rizal 's novel Noli Me
Tangere .
- accompanied Rizal to visit the cities of Europe

 While not working at Dr.
Weckert’s clinic in France, Rizal visited his friends, such as the family of
Pardo de
Taveras, Juan
Luna and Felix
Resurreccion,
Hidalgo.
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Noli Me Tangere
 published in 1887 in Berlin
 Rizal began work on the Noli while still in
Madrid, Spain. Of the remainder, most was written in Paris. He finished the book in Berlin, Germany. Vicente
Blasco Ibáñez, a well-known writer and political activist, volunteered to be the proofreader and consultant.

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 A Las Flores de Heidelberg (To the Flowers of
Heidelberg
 As Jose Rizal longed for his parents and his country, he wrote the poem “A Las Flores De Heidelberg” on
April 22, 1886. Back then, he was studying at
Universitätsplatz 12 (former Ludwigsplatz 12),
Germany. He wrote this poem because of his yearning for Calamba, inspired by his afternoon’s musings in Neckar River

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31 March 1889
 His "Me Piden Versos…!" Signed Laong-Laan was published in the La Solidaridad.
23 April 1889
 He sent a manuscript of the "Ethnography of Mindanao" to Barcelona for publication. Likewise, he sent to Dr. Joist the letter of Manuel Hidalgo in which the abuses of the friars in the Philippines were mentioned and from which
Rizal hoped Dr. Joist could gather facts for publication in the Kolmer Zeitung.

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30 April 1889
 His article "a La Defensa" was published in the La
Solidaridad.
 15 May 1889
He sent the manuscript of his Article "por telepono" to publication in pamhlet form.
 His article "Los Viajes" signed Laong Laan was published in the La Solidaridad.

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 31 May 1889
Rizal published his "La Verdad para Todos" in the La Solidaridad.
 4 June 1889
He translated more than 30 pages of Blumentritt’s Memorias on the tribes of Mindanao. He expressed the illusion than when liberty brightens in the
Philippines, he and Blumentritt would come and live together.
 Dr. A. B. Meyer visited him in Paris.
 15 June 1889
Rizal’s letter "Al Sr. D. Vicente Barrantes" was published in the La
Solidaridad (first installment).
 23 June 1889
He continued with enthusiasm the translation of Blumentritt’s Memorias on the tribes of Mindanao. He was already on page 36.
 Two copies of his picture (age 28) were sent to Blumentritt and Dr.
Czepelack.

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 23 July 1889
He sent to the printing press his annotations to Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas and requested Prof. Blumentritt in a letter to keep secret the publication of the book because with it he wanted to surprise his compatriots.
 31 July 1889 his article "Verdades Neuvas" was published in the La Solidaridad.
 15 September 1889
His article "Differencias" was Published in the La Solidaridad.
 22 September 1889
In a package, he sent to Blumentritt two statues: a beggar with a hat and a maid with bilao on her hands. He sent, too, a wallet made of nito vines. All these things came from one of Blumentritt’s admirers in the Philippines.
 30 September 1889 his essay "Filipinas Dentro de Cien Años" was published in the La Solidaridad (first installment).
 31 October 1889
His essay "Filipinas Dentro de Cien Años" was published in the La Solidaridad
(second installment).

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 15 November 1889
His article "a La Patria" was published in the La Solidaridad.
 30 November 1889
His article "Inconsecuencias" was published in the La
Solidaridad.
 23 December 1889
Copies of the Morga started coming out from the printing press.
He sent one copy to Mariano Ponce in Barcelona. In a letter,
Ponce told Rizal that the book would rectify the wrong notion, which the enemies had against the Philippines. A big blow against the enemies, he said further.

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• Towards the end of March, 1889, Rizal organized his paisanos into a society called Kidlat Club.
• Members were Antonio and Juan Luna, Lauro
Dimayuga, Baldomero Roxas, Gregorio Aguilera,
Fernando Canon, Gregorio Pautu, and Julio
Llorente.

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 Reason of Forming Kidlat Club:
• It was founded by Rizal simply to bring together the young
Filipinos in the French capital so that they could enjoy their sojourn in the city during the international exposition.
 Rizal and the members of the Kidlat Club went sightseeing in the exposition grounds. They saw the Buffalo Bill’s troupe and were impressed by the American Indians, wearing war paints and feathers, proudly riding their horses like centaurs.
 He told his friends: “ Why should we resent being called Indios by the Spaniards. Look at the American Indians. They were not ashamed of their race. Let us be like them. Let us be proud of the name Indio and make the Spaniards revise their conception of the term. We shall become Indios Bravos!”

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• Members of indios Bravos were Aguilera, Dimayuga,
Pautu, Canon, Antonio and Juan Luna, Llorente, and
Roxas.
• He organizes a society called the "Association Internationale
des Philippinistas", with Dr. Blumentritt of Austria as president, Dr. Rost of England as Vice-President, and Dr.
Planchet of Paris as a director. They plan to summon an international congress to face the Philippine question. The association also sets out to study the Philippines historically and scientifically, to publish books on all
Philippine topics, to create a Philippine Library and
Museum, etc (8)

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 24 December 1886
 He finished translating one third of the book Waitz.
 January 1887
He became a member of the Ethnographic Society of Berlin in whose meeting he had the rare opportunity of hearing the interesting lecture of Dr. Donitz on pre-historic Japanese tombs which contained sets of dishes and other decorations.
 February 1887
He became a member of the Anthropological Society and the Geographic Society of Berlin.
 5 March 1887
Rizal translated into French the "History of a Mother" by Andersen written in German.
 Transiton:
 11 May 1887
Accompanied by Maximo Viola, Rizal left Berlin to visit the cities of Eurupe, including
Dresden, Leitmeritz, Prague, Vienna, Munich, Nuremberg, Ulm, Lausanne, and Geneva.

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 On his 1 st travel in Paris at 1883, he stayed there for two months
 On the 2 nd travel at November 1885, he left Paris the next year and went to Germany in February 1886 and stayed there until May 1887 where he left Berlin to visit other cities of Europe
 1 November 1886, At 1:25 P.M., Rizal arrived at Berlin and boarded at the Central Hotel but then reside at Jaeger
Straesse 71,111.
 On his 3 rd travel, he arrived in Paris on 19 March 1889 and on 28 January 1890, Rizal left Paris for Brussels, capital of Belgium.

 For a short time, Rizal lived in the house of his friend
Valentin Ventura, at no.45 Rue Maubeuge, where he polished his annotated edition of Morga’s book.
 He lived finally in a little room , together with two
Filipinos- Capitan Justo Trinidad and Jose Albert.
 He settled in the house of a Lutheran , Karl
Ulmer and worked in the clinics of famous Polish and German ophthalmologists, Dr. Javier
Galezowsky and Dr. Otto Becker, respectively

 Rizal adjusted to his new environment by being friendly and enjoying the beautiful scenes of the place.

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 His relationship with them was good, seeing as how he even formed the Kidlat club with some of them

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 He studied French language
 He attended Fencing lessons
 Advance studies in ophthalmology
 Further techniques in eye surgery under eminent
German Physicians

 Rizal had met Adelina Boustead

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 French

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 Primary:
 Secondary:
 http://joserizal.info/Biography/man_and_martyr/chapter08.htm
 http://www.joserizal.ph/tr37.html
 (08) Dreams which began at once but that were not to reach their fulfillment until three decades later. Epistolario Rizalino, op. cit., v. 2, p.
184. Russell and Rodriguez, op. cit., p. 182.
 History 5 Selected Readings on the Life and Works of Jose Rizal, 2011
Edition, p.28-35.
 -Jose Rizal – Life, Works, and Writings by Zaide , Paper Bound, p.136-
144.
 http://en.wikipilipinas.org
 http://iamermel.blogspot.com/
 http://nurseslabs.com/life-and-travels-of-jose-rizal/