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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