Charles Pickering Bowditch 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.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, archaeologist, financier, cryptographer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 30, 1842
- Died
- June 1, 1921
