Charles Pickering Bowditch

Charles Pickering Bowditch
Died
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, US
RelativesNathaniel Bowditch (Grandfather)
Henry Pickering Bowditch (Brother)

Charles Pickering Bowditch (September 30, 1842 – June 1, 1921) was an American financier, archaeologist, cryptographer and linguistics scholar who specialized in Mayan epigraphy. He served as president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1917 to 1919. He was a major donor for the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, and funded numerous academic expeditions to Central America.

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