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RAU, Charles, archeologist, was born in Verviers, Belgium, in 1826. He
attended the university of Heidelberg; came to the United States in 1848; taught
school in Belleville, Ill., and subsequently in New York city until
1875, when he became curator in the U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C.
He had charge of the department of antiquities, 1875–87, and his contributions
to the publications of the Smithsonian Institution, 1863–87, established his
reputation as a foremost American archeologist. He was a member of the principal
archaeological and anthropological societies in Europe and America. He
bequeathed his library and collections to the U.S. National Museum. He received
the degree Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Baden, in 1882. He is the
author of: Early Man in Europe (1876); The Archæological Collections of the
United States National Museum (1876); The Palenque Tablet in the United States
National Museum (1879); Articles on Anthropological Subjects 1853–87 (1882), and
at the time of his death was engaged on an exhaustive archaeological work. He
died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 25, 1887.
Source: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX