Hugh Miller Raup (February 4, 1901 – August 10, 1995) was an American botanist, ecologist and geographer working on natural history and natural resource management in diverse regions—from tropical and temperate to arctic.
[1] He was born in Springfield, Ohio to Gustavas Philip and Fanny Mitchell Raup on February 4, 1901.
Raup left Wittenberg 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.
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.