Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk

Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk (April 29, 1887, Breda – October 21, 1974, Nijmegen) was a Dutch anthropologist, biologist and psychologist.

Biography Buytendijk was an only child of a mathematics teacher and was raised in the Dutch Reformed faith; during his childhood, he collected plants and butterflies as well as keeping an aquarium. He studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and graduated on October 21, 1909; he gained his doctorate in medicine from the University of Utrecht in 1918, with a dissertation entitled Experiments on Habit Formation in Animals.

Books His publications include; De Vrouw (1951) Prolegomena to an Anthropological Physiology (Pittsburgh, 1974) De wijsheid der mieren A gênese psicológica do espírito materno: F. J. J. Buytendijk (1960)". REVISTA DA ABORDAGEM GESTÁLTICA, v. 23, p. 111-120, 2017. Tradução de Claudinei Aparecido de Freitas da Silva. Acesso: https://pepsic.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-68672017000100012&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt