José Antonio del Busto Duthurburu

José Antonio del Busto Duthurburu (August 21, 1932 – December 25, 2006) was a Peruvian historian.

He completed his studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

After completing his studies he devoted himself to teaching and research and documentation on the history of the conquest and the Viceroyalty of Peru.

At 25 he received his PhD in history, before he had studied Education with a major in History and Geography.

Was secretary to Bishop Fidel Tubino, when he served as rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP ).

His teaching began in 1953 in the Pre condition Instructor Seminar was led by Dr. Luis Jaime Cisneros.

He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and General Studies Letters PUCP.

In 1967 he traveled to Oceania following the alleged footprints of the traveler Tupac Yupanqui, who was considered and credited with being the discoverer of the continent.

In 1968 he won the National Prize of Culture Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.

In 1979 he received the Peruvian Cross of Naval Merit and the 2002 Civic Medal Lima.

Mayor was appointed chronicler of the First Peruvian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica in 1982.

He was President of the Institute for Humanities Research of the University of Piura, a member of the National Academy of History of the Peruvian Society of History, Institute of Historical Studies Maritimes, the Peruvian Institute of History of Law, an honorary member of the Peruvian Academy of the Quechua and Aymara languages, corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy of History, National Academy of Argentina, Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires, a fellow of the Peruvian Institute of Genealogical Research and Commander of the Order Spanish by Alfonso X the Wise.

In 1983, he held the leadership of the National Institute of Culture.

He was appointed Emeritus Professor of Humanities in 1995.

He also taught at several universities and military institutions like the Naval Academy Army Aviation Military School of Chorrillos ( EMCH ), and, among other institutions of higher education.

In November 2006 he was awarded the Order of the Sun of Peru.

He questioned the decision of the Municipality of Lima removal Monument Pizarro the side of the Plaza Mayor.

"They can get him out of there, but never in history," he said, and few understood what was actually defending the origin of Peru at the junction between conquerors and conquered.

"There are no winners or losers, we are descendants of the victors and the vanquished," said another time.

Finally, after years of painful illness and consumed by cancer, died on December 25, being their veiled in the headquarters of the Riva- Agüero Institute, where he began his academic work and came to be the director, school that was always bound residues.