Santiago José Celis

[1] At a young age he moved to the Guatemalan capital to receive the best possible education of the time.

On the August 16, 1800 he received the rank of Bachelor of Medicine at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala from which he received his master's degree, finally graduating on August 11–12, 1802.

His master's degree was partly achieved by his essays and new ideas for the treatment and evolution of gangrenous inflammations.

Celis, active in the revolutionary movement against the Spanish domination, joined a further uprising on January 24, 1814.

He was incarcerated for almost three months but due to torture he received in prison, he died on April 16, 1814.