Adriaan Kortlandt
Adriaan Kortlandt (born January 25, 1918 in Rotterdam ; † October 18, 2009 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch behavioral scientist who researched mainly on cormorants and chimpanzees .
Life
Even as a schoolboy, Kortlandt had often observed cormorants and discovered the jumping movement at the same time as Nikolaas Tinbergen . He studied psychology and geography in Utrecht and received his doctorate in 1949 from the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on the brood preparation activities of the cormorant. He taught as an associate professor of animal psychology and ethology at the University of Amsterdam.
He observed chimpanzees in the 1960s. He took the view that the evolutionary higher development of the chimpanzee (to upright gait and use of tools) had been stopped when humans pushed them back from the steppe into the jungle.
The linguist Frederik Kortlandt is his son.
Fonts
- An overview of the behavior of the Central European cormorant . In: Archives néerlandaises de zoologie . tape 4 , 1940, p. 401-442 .
- Animal cosmology . In: Vakblad voor Biologen . tape 34 , 1954, pp. 1-14 .
- Aspects and prospects of the concept of instinct . In: Archives néerlandaises de zoologie . tape 11 , 1955.
- Chimpanzees in the Wild. In: Scientific American. Volume 206, No. 5, 1962, pp. 128-140.
- How do chimpanzees use weapons when fighting leopards? In: Year Book of The American Philosophical Society . tape 5 , 1965, pp. 327-332 .
- Hand use in wild chimpanzees . In: Bernhard Rensch (Ed.): Hand use and understanding among monkeys and early humans . 1968, p. 59-102 .
- New perspectives on ape and human evolution . 1972.
- Marginal habitats of chimpanzees . In: Journal of Human Evolution . tape 12 , 1983, p. 231-278 .
literature
- Behavioral Research: Rehumamized Chimps . In: Time , April 21, 1967
- Der Spiegel , issue 45/1967, distress of the cousins . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1968, pp. 146 ( online ). and beatings from the comrade . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1970, pp. 136 ( online ).
- DR Röell: The world of instinct. Niko Tinbergen and the rise of ethology in the Netherlands (1920-1950) . 2000, ISBN 90-232-3559-2
Web links
- Obituary ( memento of October 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on telegraaf.nl
- Short biography at the Polish Ethological Society (Polish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kortlandt, Adriaan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch behavioral scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 2009 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |