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devoted time to painting and sculpture. His drawing and painting instructor
was Don Augustin Saez. In sculpture, his instructor was a Filipino, Romualdo de
Jesus.
He graduated as Sobresaliente or "Outstanding", the highest recognition in
Ateneo.
University, Rizal had obtained the global grade of Notable(Very Good) in all of his
subjects, and he was the second best student in a decimated class of seven who
passed the medicine course. After which, Rizal decided to study in Spain.
Paris and went to Heidelberg, a historic city in Germany famous for its old
universities and romantic surroundings. He became popular among the Germans
because they found out that he was a good chess player. He worked at
the University Eye Hospital under the direction of Dr. Otto Becker, a
distinguished German ophthalmologist. On April 22, 1886, Rizal wrote a poem
entitled A Las Flores de Heidelberg (To the Flowers of Heidelberg) because he was
fascinated by the blooming flowers along the Neckar River, which was the light blue
flower called forget-me-not.
Right after writing A Las Flores de Heidelberg, he spent a three-month summer
vacation at Wilhelmsfeld where he stayed at the place of a Protestant pastor, Dr.
Karl Ulmer. The pastor had a wife and two children named Etta and Fritz. On
August 6, 1886, Rizal had witnessed the fifth centenary celebration of the
famous University of Heidelberg. Three days after, he left the city. Riding a train,
he traveled to other cities in Germany. On August 14, 1886, Rizal arrived in Leipzig.
There, he attended some lectures at the University of Leipzig on history and
psychology. He also befriendedProf. Friedrich Ratzel, a famous historian and Dr.
Hans Meyer, a German anthropologist. Rizal found out that the cost of living in
Leipzig was the cheapest in Europe so he stayed for 2 months and a half. On
October 29, he went to Dresden, where he met Dr. Adolph B. Meyer, the director
of theAnthropological and Ethnological Museum.
Rizal was enchanted by Berlin because of its scientific atmosphere and the absence
of race prejudice. He met scientists like Dr. Feodor Jagor, the German scientisttraveller and author of Travels in the Philippines, Dr. Rudolf Virchow, the
famous German anthropologist, Dr. W. Joest, a German geographer and Dr. Karl
Ernest Schweigger, a famous German ophthalmologist.
There were five reasons why Rizal choose to reside in Germany longer. First, to gain
further knowledge in ophthalmology. Second, to further his studies in science and
languages. Another was to observe the economic and political conditions of the
German nation. Fourth, to associate with famous German scientists and scholars
and lastly, to publish his novel, Noli Me Tangere. In Berlin, Rizal worked as an
assistant in the clinic of Dr. Schweigger'. At night, he attended lectures in
the University of Berlin and took private lessons in French under Madame Lucie
Cerdole.
Jose Rizal earned a Licentiate in Medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid,
where he also took courses in philosophy and literature. It was in Madrid that he
began writing Noli Me Tangere. He also attended classes in the University of
Paris and, in 1887, he completed his eye specialization course at the University of
Heidelberg. It was also in that year that Rizals first novel was published in Berlin.