| 词条 | Charles Rau |
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}} Charles Rau (1826 Verviers, Belgium – 25 July 1887 Philadelphia) was a United States archaeologist. He was a curator at the Smithsonian for more than a decade. BiographyHe was educated at the University of Heidelberg and emigrated to the United States in 1848, where he engaged in teaching, first in the west, and later in New York City. Beginning in 1863, he contributed articles to the publications of the Smithsonian Institution, and subsequently his articles were published in nearly every annual report. From 1875 until his death, he was curator in the Department of Antiquities at the National Museum in Washington, D.C. and devoted himself to the study of American archaeology, on which he became a recognized authority. He wrote on American antiquities for Die Natur. He was a member of the principal archaeological and anthropological societies of Europe and America. The University of Freiburg in Baden gave him the degree of Ph.D. in 1882. His great library and collections were bequeathed to the National Museum. WritingsHe published more than fifty papers. The titles of his books were:
He left unfinished a work on the types of early American implements, and what was projected to be an exhaustive record of American archaeology. NotesReferences
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