Berta Lutz

See also: Lutz (homonymy)

Berta Maria Julia Lutz is a herpetologist and a Brazilian Féministe , born the August 2nd 1894 with São Paulo and dead the September 16th 1976 with Rio de Janeiro.

It is the girl of the doctor and zoologist Adolpho Lutz (1855-1940). It is impassioned very early for the Herpétologie and accompanies her father during his scientific excursions. She studies sciences with the Sorbonne then the right to the federal Université of Rio de Janeiro. She is cofondatrice of the first movement for the women's rights of Brazil. She takes part in work of the commission which ends to the revision of the constitution of the country in 1932 and obtaining the right to vote for the women the following year. She was delegated to the meeting of San Francisco which ends in the creation of the United Nations (1945).

Parallel to its feminist activities, she works with the Museu Nacional C Brasil (national Natural history museum of Brazil) of which she directs, as from 1931, the department of Natural history. She studies particularly the Grenouille S, in particular of Hylidae.

Source

  • Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History off Herpetology, Society for the study off amphibians and reptiles: 202 p.

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