JOSE Rizal, whose 155th birth anniversary the nation will commemorate on June 19, was 25 years old when he arrived in Heidelberg in southwestern Germany on Feb. 3, 1886. Heidelberg was one of the ...

Germany, I believe, is the perfect stage for this moment,” declared Senator Loren Legarda, speaking of the coming-of-age of ...

Germany was a special place for Rizal ... Rizal also found time to write the poem “A Las Flores de Heidelberg.” While in the Ullmer household, Rizal, who had been mistaken as Chinese ...

BERLIN, Germany – Jose Rizal, the Philippines’ revered national ... But it’s not only Berlin where Rizal stayed. He also lived in Heidelberg where he wrote a poem said to be inspired by ...

Germany. The 25-year-old Rizal had come to Heidelberg to attend lectures in ophthalmology at Heidelberg University. He found the university boarding fees expensive, so his friend Ullmer tried to help ...

Heidelberg has been made famous to us Filipinos by our national hero, Jose Rizal. As we commemorate our hero’s martyrdom, I would rather dwell not on his dying for our country which we and students ...

to whom he attributed the work of putting up commemorative plaques of Dr. Rizal in Germany. Heidelberg, an inspiration to Rizal The calmness and solitude of the pastoral village; the long ...

Knights of Rizal chapters are now in Austria (Vienna), Belgium (Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent), Germany (Berlin, Bonn-Cologne, Dortmund, Hamburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg/Wilhemlsfed), France (Paris ...

In the spring of 1886 Jose Rizal was in the ancient university town of Heidelberg (the oldest university in Germany, having been founded in 1386) to update himself with ophthalmology as practiced in ...

Perhaps Rizal tried to copy a similar fountain in Heidelberg, Germany,” Aseniero said. He added that the brick pipes were made at his brick-making facility, where remnants of his huge brick kiln ...