Hugh Miller Raup (February 4, 1901 in Springfield, Ohio – August 10, 1995 in Petersham, Massachusetts) was an American botanist, ecologist and geographer working on natural history and natural resource management in diverse regions - from tropical and temperate to arctic.
He attended Wittenberg College, receiving an A.B. in 1923. Immediately following his graduation, Raup was appointed as an instructor in biology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1928, and was promoted to Assistant Professor at Wittenburg. Raup left Wittenburg College in 1932 to serve as a Research Assistant and Associate at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, a position he held from 1932 to 1938, then in the Department of Botany, where he was professor of botany and Bullard professor in forestry. [1]
He served as director of the Harvard Forest from 1946 to 1967. After his retirement from Harvard in 1967, he spend 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. [2]
The American philosopher, Dr. Robert Bruce Raup, (b. 1888) was his older brother.