Pablo Macera


Pablo Macera was a Peruvian historian.

Biography

Pablo Macera did his primary studies at La Salle School where he already felt a predilection for the History course. His secondary education was made at the Hipólito Unanue School.
At 16 he entered the Faculty of Letters and Law of the National University of San Marcos, later change his career for History. He graduated as a bachelor in 1960 with the thesis "Ensayos sobre el siglo XVIII en el Perú " and in France, as a doctor in 1962, with the thesis "La imagen francesa del Perú ".
He is the founder of the Andean Rural History Seminar, an institute belonging to the National University of San Marcos, of which he would be appointed professor emeritus.
He was president of the Patronato Nacional de Arqueología and professor at various universities. He was elected congressman of the Republic in the year 2000.
He donated his personal library to the National Library of Peru at the end of April 2015. His collection is made up of more than 34 thousand titles. The donation also includes an archive of more than one thousand manuscripts from the viceregal era and the War of the Pacific.
Macera died on January 9, 2020 at age 90. His remains were veiled in the Casona of the National University of San Marcos, in Lima.

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