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7 unusual facts about National University of San Marcos


Alejandro Romualdo

He studied literature at the National University of San Marcos in 1946 and then at the University of Madrid in 1951.

Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Cañete

He also endowed the recently founded University of Lima.

Bellavista District

On the east, the district ends at the Santiago Tábara Naval Hospital or the western perimeter of the National University of San Marcos, where the Lima Province (or more specifically, the Lima District) begins

Club Universitario de Deportes

The club was founded on 7 August 1924 as Federación Universitaria by students and professors of the National University of San Marcos such as José Rubio, the first president, and Dr. Luis Málaga, the creator of the club crest.

Deportivo Universidad San Marcos

The club was part of the National University of San Marcos and its last participation in a football league was in the 2011 Peruvian Segunda División.

Max González Olaechea

He carried out his studies at the School of Medicine of the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, where he graduated with a thesis on cirrhosis.

He was a noteworthy doctor and professor in Peru during his time: three-time dean of the School of Medicine of the National University of San Marcos, Head of the General Pathology Department, of the Clinical Medicine Department, of the Forensics Department, of the Surgical Nosography Department, of the Pathology and Pre-medicine Department, of the Semiology Department and of the Male Clinical Medicine Department.


Antonio Cornejo Polar

He received a PhD from the National University of San Agustin in Arequipa, became a professor there as well, then in 1966 he becomes Professor in National University of San Marcos, Lima.

Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke

He then traveled to Peru where he started work at the Javier Prado Museum of Natural History in Lima, an institution affiliated with the National University of San Marcos.

José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma

Riva-Agüero, a descendant of José de la Riva Agüero, studied at the National University of San Marcos and the University of Lima where he completed his PhD, before returning to San Marcos as Professor of History.

José Luis Soberanes

He is a full-time researcher at the National Autonomous University, a distinguished professor of the National University of San Marcos (Peru), an academician at the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence (Spain) and a visitant professor of the Social Sciences University of Toulouse, France.

Víctor Andrés Belaúnde

After receiving his early education there at the "Escuela San Vicente and San José," (Colegio San José) he decided to study law at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, and later transferred to finish his studies at the National University of San Marcos in Lima.


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