{{Short description|Peruvian historian and lawyer (1894–1968)}} {{Infobox person | name = Juan C. Bromley Seminario | image = Juan Bromley Seminario.png | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|09|02}} | birth_place = [[Callao]], Peru | death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|05|31|1894|09|02}} | death_place = [[Lima]], Peru | occupation = [[Historian]], [[lawyer]] | alma_mater = [[University of San Marcos]] | known_for = | notable_works = ''Las viejas calles de Lima'' }} '''Juan C. Bromley Seminario''' ([[Callao]]; {{dts|1894|09|02}} – [[Lima]]; {{dts|1968|05|31}}) was a [[Peru]]vian [[historian]] and [[lawyer]].<ref name=Vadillo>{{Cite news |title=Bromley, el erudito de Lima |url=https://elperuano.pe/noticia/81344-bromley-el-erudito-de-lima |last=Vadillo Vila |first=José |date=2019-07-11 |work=[[El Peruano]]}}</ref> He served as municipal secretary in the [[Municipality of Lima]], urban planning researcher in the city of Lima, and was also president of various Peruvian soccer clubs.
==Biography== Born in [[Callao]], he was a Graduate of Letters and Law from the [[National University of San Marcos]].<ref name=Vadillo/> Until he was 65 years old, he worked in seventeen council positions for the [[Municipality of Lima]]. He received the gold medal for The Royal Standard of the City of Lima in 1927 and the grand prize of the historical contest of the fourth centennial of Lima in 1935.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.limalaunica.pe/2013/01/el-estandarte-de-la-ciudad-de-los-reyes.html |title=El Estandarte de la Ciudad de los Reyes |date= |website=Lima la Única |last=Pino |first=David |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120093950/https://www.limalaunica.pe/2013/01/el-estandarte-de-la-ciudad-de-los-reyes.html |archive-date=2019-01-20}}</ref>
He was a sports leader and between 1927 and 1931 he presided over the [[Club Alianza Lima]], as well as founding president of [[Deportivo Municipal]] and president of the [[Peruvian Football Federation]] between 1944 and 1948.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Alianza Lima: ¿Qué significan las tres coronas y una estrella que tiene el escudo? |url=https://libero.pe/ocio/curiosidades/2022/08/23/alianza-lima-significan-tres-coronas-estrella-tiene-escudo-club-75712 |date=2022-08-23 |work=[[La República|Líbero]]}}</ref>
Between 1942 and 1964 he published the transcription of 13 Books of the [[Cabildo of Lima]], as well as the indexes of 45, including 31 Books of Charters and Provisions.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Libro póstumo rescata el rostro antiguo de Lima |url=https://larepublica.pe/cultural/2019/11/28/literatura-libro-postumo-rescata-el-rostro-antiguo-de-lima-juan-bromley-seminario |last=Escribano |first=Pedro |date=2019-11-28 |work=[[La República]]}}</ref>
In 1945, he was a member of the {{ill|Peruvian Institute for Genealogical Studies|es|Instituto Peruano de Investigaciones Genealógicas}} and, in 1955, of the {{ill|National Academy of History of Peru|es|Academia Nacional de la Historia (Perú)|lt=Historical Institute of Peru}}. Between 1964 and 1967 he published his manuscript ''Las viejas calles de Lima'' (The old streets of Lima) in fifteen parts in the municipal bulletin.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Las viejas calles de Lima |last=Bromley Seminario |first=Juan |publisher=[[Metropolitan Municipality of Lima]] |year=2019 |location=Lima |language=es |url=https://www.munlima.gob.pe/images/las-viejas-calles-de-lima.pdf |page=10 |access-date=2024-02-25 |archive-date=2021-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811164311/https://www.munlima.gob.pe/images/las-viejas-calles-de-lima.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Presentan libro de investigación: 'Las calles de Lima' de Juan Bromley |url=https://www.exitosanoticias.pe/cultural/presentan-libro-investigacion-las-calles-lima-juan-bromley-n26050 |date=2019-11-28 |work=Exitosa Noticias}}</ref>
==See also== *[[History of Lima]]
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