Lipke Holthuis

Lipke Holthuis Bijdeley (* April 21, 1921 in Probolinggo, Dutch East Indies, † March 7, 2008 in Leiden, Netherlands ) was a Dutch Crustaceologe.

Lipke Holthuis was the son of Barnard January Holthuis (1881-1961) and Neeltje bij de Ley (1891-1976), who originally came from Friesland, but worked as a teacher in East Java. In 1928 the family moved back to the Netherlands, where Holthuis went to The Hague to school. After finishing school he started in 1937 the study of biology at the University of Leiden. Shortly after the arranged by the German occupiers closing the university, he was able to obtain his degree in 1941 and started as an assistant in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke History ( Naturalis today ) to work in Leiden.

Lipke Holthuis received his doctoral degree in 1946 with the thesis entitled The Decapoda macrura of the Snell Expedition I. His doctor father was the director of the Leiden Museum, Hilbrand Boschma. From 1950 Holthuis " Conservator Crustacea " was in Naturalis, where he worked after his retirement in 1986. In the course of his scientific work from 1941 until his death in 2008 published Holthuis 617 articles or books, which mainly dealt with the taxonomy and systematics of crustaceans. Lipke Holthuis described more than 400 new taxa, including two families, five subfamilies, 83 genera and 338 species.

During his lifetime, 67 taxa were named after Lipke Holthuis, such as the shrimp Lipkius holthuisi Yaldwyn, 1960 or most cancer Cherax holthuisi Lukhaup & Pekny, 2006. After his death, a Collection was named in honor published ( see references ), in which 50 new taxa have been described and named after him.

Lipke Holthuis collected throughout his life literature on invertebrates and crustaceans. This collection he bequeathed Naturalis, where they are now as " Bibliotheca Crustaceana LB Holthuis is " part of the museum.