Luuk Tinbergen

Luuk Tinbergen ( born September 7, 1915 in The Hague, † September 1, 1955 in Groningen ) was a Dutch ornithologist and the first professor of ecology at the University of Groningen.

Luuk Tinbergen was appointed in 1949 at the suggestion of Gerard Baerends at the University of Groningen, with the aim to expand the Field Biology and modernize. Luuk Tinbergen had written three years earlier at Leiden University his doctoral thesis on Sparrowhawk ( Accipiter nisus): This study was the method described by Huib Kluijver only the second animal ecological field study, which had been accepted in the Netherlands. Unlike many representatives of the so -called classical ethology (ethology), with the help of Ethogrammen mostly isolated the behavior of individual animals described qualitatively, combined Luuk Tinbergen quantitative behavioral and ecological issues, and thus became an early pioneer in the behavioral ecology.

Luuk Tinbergen, who had suffered repeatedly from depression, died in 1955 by suicide. His son Tijs Tinbergen attended the Dutch Film and Television Academy and is a Dutch nature filmmaker ( Imdb ), his son Joost Tinbergen is Professor of Animal Ecology at the University of Groningen.

Luuk Tinbergen older brothers and January Tinbergen Nikolaas Tinbergen were awarded Nobel Prizes: Jan received the Nobel Prize in Economics (1969 ), Niko the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( 1973).

  • Zoologist
  • Ecologist
  • University teachers ( University of Groningen )
  • Netherlander
  • Born in 1915
  • Died in 1955
  • Man
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