María Rostworowski

María Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco (born August 8, 1915) 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, Agustín 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 Raúl 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 (Academia Nacional de Historia) and director of National Museum of History.

Decorations

• Commander of the Order of the Sun. 2001
• Premio Sigillo D’Oro (Città di Palermo) . 1996
• Amauta of Orden de las Palmas Magisteriales. 1990

• The Howard F. Cline Prize for American History / Honorable Mention (1981)
• National Prize of History (1953)

Publications

• Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui (1953)
• Pesos y medidas en el Perú prehispánico (1960)
• Curacas y sucesiones Costa norte (1961)
• Señoríos Indígenas de Lima y Canta (1981)
• Conflicts over Coca Fields in XVI century Perú (1988)
• Historia del Tahuantinsuyu (1988) - Translated for Cambridge as "History of the Inca Realm" (1999)
• Ensayos de Historia Andina: Élites, Etnias, Recursos (1993)
• Pachacamac y el Señor de los Milagros (2004)

Bibliography

• (Spanish) María Rostworowski. Enciclopedia Temática del Perú: Incas. Lima: El Comercio S.A., 2004.