Mar�a Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco is a Peruvian historian known for her extensive and detailed publications about Peruvian Ancient Cultures and the Inca Empire. She was born in Barranco, Peru. Her father was Jan Jacek Rostworowski, a Polish aristocrat, and her mother, Rita Tovar del Valle, was from Puno. Her grandfather, Agust�n Tovar, was president of the Senate and her uncle Karol Hubert Rostworowski, playwright. She studied at various boarding schools in Poland, Belgium, France and England. She was a student of the Peruvian historian Ra�l Porras Barrenechea at the National University of San Marcos. Maria married Count Zygmunt Broel-Plater, member of Polish nobility. They had one daughter, Cristina Broel-Plater Rostworowski, and they divorced. Maria married secondly to Alejandro Diez-Canseco Coronel-Zegarra. She has been vice-president of The National Academy of History and director of National Museum of History. [More at Wikipedia]

August 8th, 1915 in United Mexican States  /  Died:   Mar 6th, 2016