Federico Kauffmann Doig (born September 20, 1928) is a Peruvian historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist.

[1] Kauffmann Doig was born in Chiclayo, and spent his childhood and infancy in small localities of Cajamarca and Amazonas, particularly in Cocochillo (today Camporredondo) on the margin right hand of the River Marañon.

[2] On having reached his secondary studies in the College of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Lima, he entered to the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, who would grant him two times the doctorate: first in Archaeology and then in History.

As a university professor, Kauffmann Doig has exercised the Director's charges of the Lima Art Museum.

[3] He has made many scientific contributions, highlighting his theory of the development of the Andean civilization as a result of the imbalance caused by the permanent growth of the population and the scarcity of soils suitable for cultivation, added to the devastating effects of the El Niño phenomenon.