Pablo Macera did his primary studies at La Salle School where he already felt a predilection for the History course.

[2] 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 (cultura y economía)" and in France, as a doctor in 1962, with the thesis "La imagen francesa del Perú (siglos XVI -XIX)".

[2] He is the founder of the Andean Rural History Seminar, an institute belonging to the National University of San Marcos,[3] of which he would be appointed professor emeritus.

The donation also includes an archive of more than one thousand manuscripts from the viceregal era and the War of the Pacific.