Bertha lutz biography obituary

Fields: Zoology. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement. She was instrumental in gaining women's suffrage in Brazil and represented her country at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, signing her name to the United Nations Charter. In addition to her political work, she was a naturalist at the National Museum of Brazil, specializing in poison dart frogs.

She has three frog species and two lizard species named after her. Her father, Adolfo Lutz — , was a pioneering physician and epidemiologist of Swiss origin, and her mother, Amy Marie Gertrude Fowler, was a British nurse. Bertha Lutz studied natural sciences, biology and zoology at the University of Paris - Sorbonne, graduating in Soon after obtaining her degree, she returned to Brazil.

Bertha M. “Bertie” Lutz, age

After returning to Brazil in , Lutz dedicated herself to the study of amphibians, especially poison dart frogs and frogs of the family Hylidae. In , she was hired by the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. She later became a naturalist at the Section of Botany. In , she described what is now known as Lutz's rapids frog Paratelmatobius lutzii Lutz and Carvalho, , which is named in honor of her father.

Lutz is honored in the names of two species of Brazilian lizards, Liolaemus lutzae and Phyllopezus lutzae, as well as three species of frogs, Dendropsophus berthalutzae, Megaelosia lutzae, and Scinax berthae. Bertha Lutz's collections held at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro were destroyed in the fire that devastated most of the Museum's collections in September