Christian Frederik Lütken
Christian Frederik Lütken is a Naturaliste Danish, born the October 4th 1827 with Sorø and died in 1901.
After a career in the Danish army until in 1852, it decides to be devoted entirely to the Natural history and leaves the army with a rank of first lieutenant. Of 1856 with 1862, it is Privatdozent at the university of Copenhagen and teaches the Zoologie. He becomes the assistant of Japetus Steenstrup (1813-1897) with the Natural history museum of zoology of Copenhagen.
He publishes in 1861 the report of his observations on the Insecte S and the vertebrate ones and in particular Bidrag til Kundskab om Brasiliens Padder og Krybdyr , cosigné with Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (1816 - 1882).
He obtains a station at the Polytechnic school in 1877, then, four years later within the university, then, in 1885, he succeeds Steenstrup with the pulpit of zoology. It takes its retirement in 1899 after an attack left it paralyzed. Hector Frederik Estrup Jungersen (1854-1917) succeeds to him then.
Lütken works, except for the Insecte S and of the Mollusque S on the whole of the world living and more particularly on the echinodermatous S and the Poisson many S. species S was dedicated to him.
Large pedagog, it writes many popularizing works in natural history which are a great success.
| Random links: | Cycle of the seven notes | Audet | Formelia | 260 (number) | Paulino Vicente | Municipalité_de_Næstved |