Background
He was born in Springfield, Ohio to Gustavas Philip and Fanny Mitchell Raup on February 4, 1901.
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He attended Wittenberg College, receiving an Bachelor of Arts in 1923. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1928, and was promoted to Assistant Professor at Wittenburg.
Career
Immediately following his graduation, Raup was appointed as an instructor in biology. He served as director of the Harvard Forest from 1946 to 1967. After his retirement from Harvard in 1967, he spent three years as visiting professor of geography at Johns Hopkins University.
Raup spent several summers in the late 1960s in Mestersvig in North-East Greenland investigating the relationship between vegetation and environment in an arctic landscape.
He died on August 10, 1995 in Sister Bay, Wisconsin.
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