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 to the University of Groningen in 1949 at the suggestion of Gerard Baerends , with the aim of expanding and modernizing the field of biology . Luuk Tinbergen had written his doctoral thesis on sparrowhawks ( Accipiter nisus ) three years earlier at the University of Leiden : This study was only the second animal-ecological field study that had been accepted in the Netherlands, after that by Huib Kluijver. In contrast to many representatives of so-called classical comparative behavioral research ( ethology ), who usually qualitatively described the behavior of individual animals with the help of ethograms , Luuk Tinbergen combined quantitative behavioral and ecological questions and thus became an early pioneer for behavioral ecology .

Luuk Tinbergen, who had repeatedly suffered from depression, died of suicide in 1955 . His son Tijs Tinbergen attended the Dutch Film and Television Academy and is a Dutch nature filmmaker, his son Joost Tinbergen is professor of animal ecology at the University of Groningen.

Luuk Tinbergen's older brothers Jan Tinbergen and Nikolaas Tinbergen were awarded Nobel Prizes: Jan with the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1969), Niko with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1973).

literature

• Hans Kruuk: Niko's Nature. The Life of Niko Tinbergen and his Science of Animal Behavior. Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-851558-8 , pp. 21-23

Web links

• Luuk Tinbergen in the Internet Movie Database (English)