Luis Arístides Fiallo Cabral (8 May 1876 – 20 March 1931 in

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) was an

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, medical laboratory scientist, physician, lawyer, architect, writer, philosopher and politician from the

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Biography

Born on 8 May 1876, his parents were Juan Ramón Rodríguez Fiallo and Ana María Cabral y Figueredo—a sister of Marcos Antonio Cabral y Figueredo. He was brother of poet

Fabio Fiallo Fabio Fiallo, in full Fabio Federico Fiallo Cabral (February 3, 1866 – August 29, 1942) was a Dominican Republic writer, poet, politician, and diplomat, primarily known for his modernist short stories and verses, as well as being an outspoken an ...

, uncle of both fashion designer

Oscar de la Renta Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo (22 July 1932 – 20 October 2014), known professionally as Oscar de la Renta, was a Dominican fashion designer. Born in Santo Domingo, he was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo. De la Renta ...

and physician and political activist Viriato Fiallo, grandnephew of President José María Cabral y Luna, first-cousin once-removed of

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(

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), and both great-great-grandfather and 1st cousin-thrice removed of film director José María Cabral González. He married on 27 December 1900 to Flor de María Gregoria Henríquez García (1879–1963), the daughter of poet

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(1848–1952) and Carmen Amalia García Ricardo (1856–1894); his wife was niece of President

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and cousin of Camila and

Pedro Henríquez Ureña Pedro Henríquez Ureña (June 29, 1884 – May 11, 1946) was a Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic. Biography Early works Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born in Santo Domingo, the third of four siblings. He ...

. They had 7 children: Fior d’Aliza, Gracia Leda, Hostos (1903–1988), Isis, Telma (d. 1998), Urania (b. 1911), Safo Suleika (1915–2001). Fiallo received every degree the

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could offer. Fiallo Cabral was member of the and the . Fiallo was deputy for the Dominican Republic Congress, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Santo Domingo, and President of the Dominican Society of Geography. He was the author of the Theory of Biocosmic Universal Gravitation. Fiallo died on 20 March 1931 in

. The Dominican government declared five days of

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