Christian Frederik Lütken

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Christian Frederik Lütken was a Danish zoologist and naturalist. He was born on 7 October 1827 in Sorø, and died on 6 February 1901.

In 1852 he resigned his commission as a lieutenant with the Danish Army, earning his masters degree in sciences during the following year.[1] Afterwards, he served as an assistant to Japetus Steenstrup (1813–1897) at the University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum.[2] Following Steenstrups's retirement in 1885, he became a professor of zoology and director of the zoological museum. As he grew older, he suffered from physical infirmities — during the last year of his life, he was stricken by paralysis.[3] In 1899, Hector Frederik Estrup Jungersen (1854–1917) was chosen as Lütken's successor at Copenhagen.[4]

Lütken specialized in marine zoology, being highly regarded for his research of echinoderms. He described a number of marine organisms, and has numerous species named after him, such as Paulicea luetkeni, Platystoma luetkeni, Ophiactis luetkeni and Oneirodes luetkeni, to name a few.[5][6][7]

With Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (1816–1882), he published a book on Brazilian amphibians and reptiles titled Bidrag til Kundskab om Brasiliens Padder og Krybdyr.[8] With Reinhardt, he described several herpetological species,[9] including the Little-scaled Least Gecko, the Rio Grande Escuerzo and Saint Vincent's Bush Anole.

Partial list of publications

  • 1864 : Bidrag til Kundskab om Echinidern - Contributions to the knowledge of echinoderms.
  • 1877 : Korte bidrag til nordisk Ichthyographi. I. Foreløbige Meddelelser om nordiske Ulkefiske (Cottoidei). Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1876–1877 : 355–388, 72–98.[10]
  • 1892 : Spolia Atlantica.
  • 1898 : The ichthyological results. Danish Ingolf Expedition, II. Copenhagen : 215–254, Pl. 1–4.
  • 1899 : The Ophiuridæ - On Ophiuridae, published in English in 1899.[11]
  • A collection of his popular lectures at the Danish Natural History Society was published in "Skildringer af Dyrelivet i Fortid og Nutid" (Descriptions of Animal Life in Past and Present Times) (Copenhagen: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1880).[1]
The standard author abbreviation Lutken is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[12]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Darwinarkivet.dk Christian Frederik Lütken (1827-1901)
  2. ↑ At the time an independent institution, now part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark
  3. ↑ Nature, Volume 63 edited by Sir Norman Lockyer
  4. ↑ Hector F.E. Jungersen | Gyldendal - Den Store Danske (biography)
  5. ↑ Fishbase Familia Pimelodidae - Long-whiskered catfishes
  6. ↑ World Ophiuroidea Database Ophiuroidea taxon details
  7. ↑ WoRMS taxon details Oneirodes Lütken, 1871
  8. ↑ Google Books Bidrag til Kundskab om Brasiliens Padder og Krybdyr
  9. ↑ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  10. ↑ Google Books Korte Bidrag til nordisk Ichthyographi
  11. ↑ WorldCat Identities (publications)
  12. ↑ "Author Query for 'Lutken'". International Plant Names Index. 
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