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Luuk Tinbergen (7 September 1915, in
The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...
– 1 September 1955, in Groningen) was a Dutch ornithologist and
ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...
. Tinbergen was the youngest of three eminent brothers — both Jan and Nikolaas won Nobel Prizes, for economics and physiology or medicine, respectively. He was appointed in 1949 by Gerard Baerends to the
University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...
, where he developed important concepts in
ethology Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. Behaviourism as a term also describes the scientific and objecti ...
. He was influenced to specialize in ethology by ethologist brother Niko with whom he was very close, but he also was influenced by Jan to introduce a level of quantitative analysis not previously utilized in ethology. Tinbergen committed suicide in 1955 at the age of 39.
Tijs Tinbergen Tijs Tinbergen (; born c. 3 July 1947 in ) is a Dutch filmmaker. Tinbergen graduated with honors from the Netherlands Film Academy in 1975. He primarily produces documentaries, usually in collaboration with the producer Jan Musch. In 2009, he w ...
, his elder son, is a nature film director
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, whose 1994 film ''Gebiologeerd'' ("mesmerised") is a homage to his fathe

Tinbergen's younger son, Joost Tinbergen, is also a biologist. University of Groningen alumni 1915 births 1955 deaths Dutch ornithologists Scientists from The Hague 20th-century Dutch zoologists 1955 suicides {{netherlands-scientist-stub