death_date religion death_place birth_place background birth_date article_title name
29 june 1792 catholic faenza -rrb- , papal states -lrb- in present day italy riobamba ecuador -rrb- , viceroyalty of peru -lrb- in present day #ffa 500 january 27 , 1727 juan de velasco
 juan de velasco y pérez petroche
juan de velasco

juan de velasco y pérez petroche -lrb- 1727 -- 1792 -rrb- was an 18th-century jesuit priest , historian , and professor of philosophy and theology from the royal audience of quito .
he was born in riobamba to juan de velasco y lópez de moncayo and to maría pérez petroche .
among the universities where he taught was the universidad de san marcos in lima in the viceroyalty of peru .
he is best known for his history book `` historia del reino de quito '' , although he also wrote books in fields other than history , such as physics textbooks and poetry anthologies .
the book `` historia del reino de quito '' is important in the history of ecuador and of the city of quito because it alleges the existence of a pre-inca kingdom in what is now ecuador and which is known as `` reino de quito '' -lrb- `` kingdom of quito '' -rrb- .
the book is mentioned , discussed and criticized by several historians such as marcos jiménez de la espada , federico gonzález suárez , jacinto jijón y caamaño , alfredo pareja diezcanseco , misael acosta solís , enrique ayala mora and galo ramón valarezo .
a picture of juan de velasco was in a 1947 60-cent postal stamp of the ecuadorian postal service -lsb- http://www.sellosmundo.com/america/ecuador/sello_15018.htm] .
