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.