Miguel Canela Lázaro, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Miguel Canela Lázaro

Dominican surveyor, physician and scientist

Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1894

Date of Death: 01-Dec-1977

Profession: physician, diplomat

Nationality: Dominican Republic

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Miguel Canela Lázaro was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, on September 29, 1894, the son of Pedro Canela (also born in Santiago) and Dolores Antonia Lázaro (a Spaniard).
He died in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 1, 1977.
The Rouvière and Canela ligament (shown in Fig.
15 of "Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay" ) is named after him and his supervisor at the University of Paris, Henri Rouvière, for their joint work .He was also a conservationist and a diplomat.
He received both a surveyor (1917) and medicine doctorate (1924) degrees from the University of Santo Domingo.