Agustin Stahl
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was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on the 21 of January of 1842. A Doctor and
an investigator. He did the primary studies in his native town and the superior
ones in Germany. He studied Medicine in the universities of Wartburg and
Prague, as where he graduated in 1864. To his return to the Island he
exerted his profession and he made, in addition, etnológicos, botanical,
zoological and historical studies. By his investigations he received prizes of
the Spanish Anthropological Society; Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona
and Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia.
Some of his works are: "Notes on the Puerto Rican flora", "Report on the disease
of the sugar cane", "Puerto Rican Flora", "the Puerto rican Indians", "the
fecundity of the woman in Puerto Rico", "demographic Study", "Foundation of
Aguadilla" and "Foundation of Bayamón".
In his political life, he militated in Puerto Rican the Autonomist Party. Due to
his political ideas he lost the chair of Natural Sciences in the Civil Institute
of the Second Education. he was exiled the 4 of May of 1898. It died in Bayamón,
the 12 of 1917 July.
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