Christian Frederik Lütken

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Christian Frederik Lütken

Christian Frederik Lütken (born October 7, 1827 in Sorø ; † February 6, 1901 ) was a Danish zoologist and paleontologist .

Lütken was the son of Professor Johann Christian Lütken (1791-1856) and studied zoology in Copenhagen with Japetus Steenstrup (1813-1897), whom he knew from Sorø. This was interrupted by participating as a volunteer in the suppression of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising (Battle of Idstedt) as an officer, which he remained until 1852. In 1853 he earned his master's degree. He was then assistant to Steenstrup at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen and received his doctorate in 1857 on echinoderms (echinoderms) from Greenland. First he dealt with lower animals, from 1882 he was curator for vertebrates. After Steenstrup's retirement in 1885 he became professor of zoology and director of the museum. When he had to give up his professorship in 1899 due to illness, Frederik Estrup Jungersen (1854–1917) was his successor. From 1878 to 1886 he also gave lectures at the Polytechnic in Copenhagen.

Lütken dealt with marine fauna, especially echinoderms and fish. But he also dealt with herpetology and wrote a book with Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (1816–1882) about amphibians and reptiles in Brazil and both of them first described some reptiles from South America. He also published on Brazilian fish, parasitic crabs, dolphins and much more, was the author of popular science works and textbooks. For the first Danish deep-sea expedition with the Ingolf (1895 and 1896) he processed the fish.

He was a knight of the Danebrog Order . In 1897 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

Fonts

  • with Reinhardt: Bidrag til Kundskab om Brasiliens Padder og Krybdyr , 1861
  • Bidrag til Kundskab om Echinids , 1864
  • About the limitation and division of the ganoids . In: Palaeontographica . Volume 22, 1873, pp. 1-54.
  • Skildringer af Dyrelivet i Fortid and Nutid . Copenhagen 1880 ( depictions of animal life in the past and present )
  • Spolia Atlantica , 1892
  • The Ophiuridae , 1899
  • The Ichthyological Results of the Expeditions of the "Ingolf" , 1898

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Christian Frederik Lütken. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 3, 2015 (Russian).

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personal data
SURNAME Lütken, Christian Frederik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish zoologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Soro
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1901