Federico Kauffmann Doig

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Federico Kauffmann Doig is a Peruvian historian and archaeologist.

[edit] Early life

was born in Chiclayo, but his childhood and infancy passed in small localities of Cajamarca and Amazonas, particularly in Cocochillo (today Camporredondo) on the margin right hand of the River Marañon. Of German father, it is provided for the maternal side with forefathers of the millennial culture Mochica.

On having reached his secondary studies in the school Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Lima, he entered to the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, who would grant him two times the doctorate: first in Archaeology and then in History.

[edit] Academic career

As a university professor, Kauffmann Doig has exercised the Director's charges of the Museo de Arte. He is General manager of the Monumental and Cultural Patrimony of the Nation and the Director of the Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología and History of Peru.

He has translated The Incas and their Ancestors and Machu Picchu: Inca Treasure. [1]

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