María Rostworowski

María Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco (8 August 1915 – 6 March 2016) was a Peruvian historian known for her extensive and detailed publications on Peruvian Ancient Cultures and the Inca Empire.

Biography Rostworowski was born in the Barranco district of Lima, Peru. Her father was Jan Jacek Rostworowski, a Polish aristocrat, and her mother, Rita Tovar del Valle, was from Puno. Her grandfather, Agustín Tovar Aguilar, was president of the Senate and her uncle, Karol Hubert Rostworowski, was a playwright. She studied at various boarding schools in Poland, Belgium, France and England, where she learned French, English, and Polish. She was a student of the Peruvian historian Raúl Porras Barrenechea at the National University of San Marcos. She participated in the Popular Action political party, a Peruvian political party, during the party's inception.

Rostworowski married her distant cousin, Count Zygmunt Broel-Plater, a member of the Polish nobility. His father was Count Edward Cezar Marian Broel-Plater and his mother was Countess Janina Tyszkiewicz-Łohojska. Rostworowski and Count Broel-Plater had one daughter, Cristina Broel-Plater Rostworowski, but later the couple divorced. She later remarried the businessman Alejandro Diez-Canseco Coronel-Zegarra, who was the son of Manuel Diez-Canseco, and relative of the Counts of Alastaya. She turned 100 in August 2015.

Death María Rostworowski died on Sunday 6 March 2016, aged 100, between 3:30 and 3:38 in the afternoon.

Books Pachacutec inca Yupanqui (1953) Curacas y sucesiones: costa norte (1961) Los ascendientes de Pumacahua (1963) Etnia y sociedad: costa peruana prehispánica (1977 y 1989) Señoríos indígenas de Lima y Canta (1978) Recursos naturales renovables y pesca: siglos XVI y XVII (1981) Estructuras andinas del poder: ideología religiosa y política (1983) La mujer en la época prehispánica (1986) Entre el mito y la historia: psicoanálisis y pasado andino, con Max Hernández, Moisés Lemlij, Luis Millones y Alberto Péndola (1987) Conflicts over Coca Fields in XVI century Perú (1988) Historia del Tahuantinsuyu (first edition: 1988).... Doña Francisca Pizarro: una ilustre mestiza (1534–1598) (1989) Pachacámac y el Señor de los Milagros: una trayectoria milenaria (1992) Las visitas a Cajamarca. 1571-72/1578. Documentos (1992, 2 volumes, with Pilar Remy) Ensayos de historia andina (1993 y 1998) La mujer en el Perú prehispánico (1995) Kon, el dios volador y el pequeño Naycashca, with illustrations by Claudine Gaime (1995) La muerte del sol y otros cuentos del Antiguo Perú (1996) El origen de los hombres y otros cuentos del Antiguo Perú (1996) María Fernanda Alvarado Ágreda (1996) Pachacútec y la leyenda de los chancas (1997) El señorío de Pachacámac (1999) Historia de los Incas (Lima: Editorial Bruño, 1999) Los Incas (Lima: Fundación Telefónica, 2000) (in CD-ROM). Incas Enciclopedia temática del Perú. El Comercio edition, Lima (2004) of the collection; of the book; 120 thousand copies Obras completas (2005)