Jose Rizal in Heidelberg
sirl...@arcor.de
Good job again Sir Joe!
If I may please add:
Sir Dr Fritz Hack Ullmer, one of the great grandsons of Pastor Karl Ullmer, narrated how Dr Rizal, when asked what his birthday wish would be, asked to have rice on his 25th birthday! Having eaten all kinds of potatoes, he longed to have rice and got it too!
Pastor Ullmer could be credited for greatly enhancing Dr Rizal's knowledge of German. Sir Dr Fritz Hack Ullmer said that Dr Rizal never knew Schiller, nor William Tell. This piece was used by Pastor Ullmer in teaching Dr Rizal German. One proof that the teaching lessons were good is Dr Rizal's translation of William Tell into Tagalog!
In addition to Prof Ferdinand Blumentritt therefore, Pastor Ullmer could be the other European who greatly influenced Dr Jose Rizal's thinking and destiny! What with Dr Rizal, sitting with Protestant Pastor Ullmer and the Catholic Priest of Dossenheim on a so-called "STAMMTISCH", on a regular basis, discussing practically every topic under the sun! When German became complicated, the three turned to Latin...
Although Prof Otto Becker might have taught at the Ruperto Carola University, Heidelberg, no documentary evidence shows that Dr Rizal indeed studied in said university. Attending some lessons, or sitting in some lectures as guest student could be very possible. Also, one who is learning German, staying about 6 months in the area (3 in Heidelberg and 3 in Wilhelmsfeld), could not possibly be expected to enroll in said university where the medium of instruction could only be German, and graduate in Medecine from such institution of higher learning within a few months. Add the fact that his 3 months in Wilhelmsfeld consisted of a lot of WALKING! By the time one finishes a 12 kms walk, one way, one wants to sleep! (Lazir at his age can handle the distance, even the return journey, but to sit still and learn Medicine could be impossible because then, the mind will fall asleep from fatigue indeed! hehe)
On 23 June 2011, Lady Charlote Loevenich of the Kababaihang Rizalista, Wilhelmsfeld-Heidelberg Chapter and Lazir led a group of about 20 (with young kids tagging along even, youngest perhaps 7-8!) Filipinos and Germans, following the Footsteps of Dr Jose Rizal, from Philosophenweg up the Odenwald to Rizal Park, Wilhelsfeld. Sad to say, we got lost, after about 12 kms, and 3 hours of walking. With the small kids getting tired, we walked to the nearest bus station and cut our journey short, with a promise to come back again, next time armed with the right guide. Crisscrossing modern roads/pathways were indeed confusing. Still, it was a great experience! To think that it has been Lazir's plan to take this walk. Finding other Filipinos is always a problem, when it comes to WALKING such a distance! hehe
Wilhelmsfeld is fondly called Noli Village (because of Dr Rizal's book) or sometimes, Little Baguio because of the zigzag route going there.
If you have some questions, simply send it/them. If Lazir doesn't know, he can ask Sir Dr Fritz Hack-Ullmer and/or his brother, Sir Dr Hans Hack Ullmer.
Tnx Sir Joe and Prof Roda for your great contributions!
for country and people!
:)
Lazir
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Von: Jose Sison Luzadas <luz...@bellsouth.net>
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Datum: 28.06.2011 01:28
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> Fellow Rizalists,
>
> A UP fraternity brother sent this interesting article on Rizal that appeared
> in
> Philippine Daily Inquirer. I also included A Tribute to Rizal on his 150
> birthday
>
> Utol Mon, thanks for the article, I always wear the frat souvenir cap you
> gave.
> Here's one more writing .
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> Please download whenever you have time.
>
> Maraming salamat
>
> Jose Sison Luzadas '58
> Delray Beach, FL
>
>
>
>
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> From: To: Jose S Luzadas'58 <luz...@bellsouth.net>
> Sent: Mon, June 27, 2011 6:23:43 PM
> Subject: FW: Jose Rizal
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> Utol,
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> FYI sa katokayo mong bayani natin.
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> Heidelberg still celebrates Jose Rizal?s birthdayBy: Ramon M. Roda
> Philippine Daily Inquirer
> 3:50 am | Monday, June 20th, 2011
> 8 share171
> Unknown to many, Dr. Jose Rizal celebrated his 25th birthday with a Lutheran
>
> minister, Karl Ulmer, and his family on June 19, 1886, in Wilhelmsfeld, an
> idyllic and quaint suburban district 15 miles from Heidelberg town.
> In commemoration of that occasion, the Ulmer family honored the ?young
> Filipino
> eye doctor with a party in their house where strawberry punch was served,?
> as
> recounted by Fritz, one of Pastor Ulmer?s sons.
> The Germans have a deep attachment and devotion to Rizal, and today he is
> still
> revered as one of their own in two places in Germany: Heidelberg and
> Wilhelmsfeld.
> Old-timers and German Rizalistas of Heidelberg pay respect to our national
> hero
> with appropriate ceremonies during his birthday every year. They still share
>
> fond memories of our hero?s memorable six-month sojourn in Heidelberg and
> Wilhelmsfeld, which they reminisce with particular devotion and veneration.
> Retracing Rizal?s footsteps
> Heidelberg, a city in southern Germany, is famous for its ancient
> university,
> romantic surroundings, old churches, majestic castles and cobblestone
> streets
> redolent of a bygone era. Heidelberg is the best-known place and destination
> for
> Filipino tourists and Rizalistas bound for the historic German city because
> of
> Rizal?s poem ?To the Flowers of Heidelberg,? and the three-story Baroque
> building, the Alte Universitat. It is Germany?s oldest university, founded
> in
> 1386.
> The young Rizal arrived in Heidelberg on Feb. 3, 1886, from Paris and
> immediately fell in love with the beautiful city.
> In October 1998, or 112 years after Rizal?s arrival in Heidelberg, I
> traveled to
> Germany for a one-month ?centennial tour? (1998 being the 100th anniversary
> of
> the declaration of Philippine independence) to retrace Rizal?s footsteps in
> Germany?s oldest university town, where our hero stayed for six months.
> I was enamored with Heidelberg?s romantic surroundings and picturesque
> scenery.
> The ruins of the magnificent castle perched on a steep bank of Neckar River,
>
> overlooking the city, give a very romantic aura. The Old Roman Bridge with
> its
> historic gateway is awe-inspiring.
> In Heidelberg, Rizal studied the German language; attended lectures in
> ophthalmology as an observer under Dr. Otto Becker and professor Wilhelms
> Kuehne, at the Alte Universitat; and trained under two outstanding
> ophthalmologists, Dr. Becker and Dr. Galezowsky, in the ?Augen Klinik? or
> eye
> clinic.
> Rizal stayed for a while in a four-story pension house at Karlstrasse No.
> 16,
> but he soon moved to another boarding house?a three-story apartment at
> Lutwigsplatz No. 12 Grebangasse in front of University of Heidelberg.
> The first floor of the place where Rizal used to live now houses a
> bookstore. It
> was here where Rizal in his lonely moment wrote his nostalgic poem ?A las
> Flores
> de Heidelberg? on April 22, 1886, when he just turned 25.
> Nick Joaquin said that ?the poem is one of the most charming poems,
> luminous,
> not black, musical, not curt.? It was published in the December 1896 issue
> of La
> Solidaridad.
> To pay tribute to the National Hero, a bronze marker placed at the façade of
>
> this well-preserved boarding-house reads: ?In this building, former
> Ludwigsplatz
> 12, Rizal lived from Feb. 18 to June 1886. His poem ?A las Flores de
> Heidelberg?
> was written here on April 22, 1886. Embassy of the Philippines, June 19,
> 1960.?
> The building has remained incredibly the same as it was during Rizal?s time.
>
> Another marker was affixed at the entrance of the University Eye Clinic
> where
> our young doctor trained in ophthalmology.
> Rizal left Heidelberg and moved to Wilhelmsfeld. From Wilhelmsfeld, he would
>
> regularly commute to and from Heidelberg in this 12-km stretch, which took
> him
> three hours walking the marvelously beautiful forest to attend his studies
> at
> the university.
> Idyllic Wilhelmsfeld
> Wilhelmsfeld, a mountainous village with ancient trees on the hillside of
> Odenwald in West Germany, can be reached 30 minutes by car through a pine
> forest
> and zigzag roads from Heidelberg.
> Rizal spent three months in Wilhelmsfeld as a house guest of Pastor Karl
> Ullmer,
> with whom Rizal had a chance meeting earlier while strolling along the
> Philosophen Weg (Philosopher Way), a ?scenic path along the banks of Neckar
> River which overlooks Heidelberg?s majestic castle.? Pastor Karl Ullmer, the
>
> vicar of the paris, became Rizal?s devoted friend.
> A long friendship blossomed between them, and the German pastor invited for
> the
> young foreigner to stay with his family as house guest. Rizal?s stay with
> the
> Ullmers gave him the chance to make incredible progress in speaking and
> writing
> in German. It also afforded him to savor and imbibe the spring peace of
> green
> valleys, farm house and picturesque scenery.
> In this idyllic setting, he finished writing the last chapters of his first
> novel, ?Noli Me Tangere,? as well as made crucial revisions on the draft.
> To keep Rizal?s memory alive, a plaque carved in gold letters on the black
> marble was installed in the three-story, century-old stone house of Pastor
> Ullmer on Jan. 4, 1960. The plaque reads as follows from its original
> German:
> ?Jose Rizal (1861-1896), National Hero of the Philippines, wrote the last
> chapters of his novel ?Noli Me Tangere? in this house while a guest of
> Pastor
> Ullmer in 1886.?
> Outside Pastor Ullmer?s house is a street named Jose Rizal while an
> embankment
> along Neckar River bears the name of our national hero?Rizal-Ufer.
> It was in Wilhelmsfeld where Rizal celebrated his 25th birthday. They
> toasted to
> strawberry punch and enjoyed the warmth of the company. It was an intimate
> relationship with Ulmer?s family that, three generations later, two
> grandsons of
> Pastor Ulmer would tenderly reminisce about their former tenant.
> ?My grandfather used to say that his vicarage had only two foreign guests,
> one
> an empress (Elizabeth of Austria, who stayed in their residence in 1885) and
> the
> other, Rizal, and that of the two it was Rizal whose memory lingered the
> longest.?
> Rizal?s Memorial Park
> The high point of any visit to Wilhelmsfeld has to be a tour of Rizal Park.
> It
> is nestled in a picturesque setting?rolling, steep hills bound and dominated
> by
> pristine forest amid bucolic surroundings.
> Standing at the center of Rizal Park is a ?larger-than-life bronze statue
> showing Rizal with a quill in his right hand touching his face slightly in
> deep
> thought with a far gaze.?
> In front of the well-manicured park and cobblestone lawn is a statue with
> mini
> fountain and three manmade islets, while nearby is a concrete-and-wood bench
>
> canopied by huge ancient trees, half-bare, welcoming the coming of winter.
> A tinge of sadness and nostalgia engulfed me as I sat on the bench
> reminiscing
> about Rizal merrily celebrating his 25th birthday in 1886 and toiling on his
>
> first novel ?amid the sepulchral silence of the vicarage garden, among the
> German flowers he loved so much.?
> Rizal?s statue, created by Filipino sculptor Anastacio Caedo, was unveiled
> on
> Sept. 2, 1978.
> In naming a plaza for our national hero in Wilhelmsfeld, the people of
> Heidelberg was ?honoring the memory of a man of letters and science, who,
> with
> courage and generosity and brotherhood, struggled until death for the moral
> and
> intellectual advancement of his people.?
> Time and distance cannot obliterate the memory of Rizal in Heidelberg??The
> City
> with Heart.? To the inhabitants of Heidelberg and the German government,
> ?Danken? (Thank you).
> Ramon M. Roda is a retired professor of Spanish and Rizal course at the
> College
> of Commerce of the University of Santo Tomas.
>
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