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President of the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women. Member (correspondent): American Museum of Natural History. Corresponding member of the American Museum of Natural History.

Decorated by the Belgian and German governments for services to agriculture (1924 and 1931).

Membership

Member committee on labor conditions of women of the International Bureau of the League of Nations.

Decorations from Belgium and German governments, for services to agriculture. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement. Among people deceased in 1976, Bertha Lutz ranks 176. Represented Brazil at the Pan-American Conference of Women held at Baltimore under the auspices of the National League of Women Voters (1922).

Launched the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women (1922).

Bertha Lutz is the 761st most popular biologist (down from 489th in 2024), the 484th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Brazilian Biologist.

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Among biologists, Bertha Lutz ranks 761 out of 1,097.

Member of the Brazilian delegation to the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (December, 1933).

Appointed as representative of Brazilian women to the committee charged with the drafting of the project of a new constitution of Brazil (1932). With the aid of a number of congressmen (Senator Adolpho Gordo, Deputies Justo Chermont and Juvenal Lamartine) launched the first organized women's movement in Brazil.

Decorations from Belgium and German governments, for services to agriculture. Daughter of Dr. Adolpho Lutz, who was instrumental in eradicating yellow fever in Sao Paulo, and introduced the study of tropical medicine in Brazil, and of Amy Fowler Lutz, who served in Hawaii as voluntary nurse to lepers and launched the first free school for neglected boys in Brazil.

Before her are Élie-Abel Carrière, Alexei Fedchenko, Garrett Hardin, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, John Hutchinson, and Domenico Vandelli. After her are Flávio Conceição (1974), Danilo (1991), Luís Mesquita de Oliveira (1911), Arthur Machado (1909), Eduardo Saverin (1982), and Laurindo Almeida (1917).

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Feminism, science and politics - Bertha Lutz’s legacy

Inscribed on the Memory of the World International Register and on the Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, the nomination "Feminism, science, and politics - Bertha Lutz's legacy" presents collections of four institutions which have the work of the Brazilian biologist, congresswoman, and feminist Bertha Lutz (1894-1976) as point of convergence.

Before her are Edith Evans, Walter Piston, Percy Faith, Mark Tobey, Carlos Fonseca, and Alfred Landé.

Connections

Father:: Dr. Adolpho Lutz, who was instrumental in eradicating yellow fever in Sao Paulo
Mother:: introduced the study of tropical medicine in Brazil, and of Amy Fowler Lutz, who served in Hawaii as voluntary nurse to lepers and launched the first free school for neglected boys in Brazil

They also attest to the involvement of activists and organizations in defense of women’s rights in broad issues such as disarmament and world peace.

Bertha LUTZ

Feministscientist

Bertha LUTZ, Brazilian scientist, feminist;.

Education

Educated faculty of science, University de Paris, and law school, University do Brasil.

Career

Successfully competed for the appointment of secretary of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, being the second woman to occupy a responsible post in government service. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2024).

The archival holdings presented in this nomination, registered in the Memory of the World Programme in Brazil in 2018, offer diverse possibilities for understanding the way in which movements in favor of women’s rights were organized and related from their countries of operation, especially in the decades of 1920, 1930 and 1940. (This organization now has branches in most of the states and was largely instrumental in securing equal suffrage in 1933.) Represented Brazil at the International Conference of Women in Rome (1923) and in Berlin (1929), and at the Pan-American Conference of Women in Washington (1925).

Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz, Brazilian herpetologist (São Paulo 02 August 1894 – Rio de Janeiro 19 September 1976)

Daughter of physician and naturalist Adolpho Lutz

DESCRIBED AMPHIBIA TAXA

Family

Eleutherodactylidae 1954

Subfamily

Eleutherodactylinae 1954

Genus

Paratelmatobius 1958 with Carvalho

Species

Aplastodiscus albosignatus 1938 with A.

Lutz

Aplastodiscus musicus 1949

Aplastodiscus perviridis 1950

Bokermannohyla claresignata 1939 with A. Lutz

Cochranella ritae 1952

Crossodactylus grandis 1951

Dendropsophus meridianus 1954

Dendropsophus nahdereri 1963 with Bokermann

Gastrotheca albolineata 1939 with A.

Lutz

Gastrotheca dunni 1977

Holoaden bradei 1958

Hypsiboas cipoensis 1968

Hypsiboas goianus 1968

Hypsiboas joaquini 1968

Hypsiboas secedens 1963

Ischnocnema gualteri 1974

Ischnocnema hoehnei 1958

Ischnocnema venancioi 1958

Paratelmatobius lutzii 1958 with Carvalho

Paratelmatobius pictiventris 1958

Phyllomedusa ayeaye 1966

Phyllomedusa distincta 1950

Pristimantis carvalhoi 1952

Scinax alcatraz 1973

Scinax alter 1973

Scinax angrensis 1973

Scinax caldarum 1968

Scinax duartei 1951

Scinax flavoguttatus 1939 with A.

Lutz

Scinax humilis 1954

Scinax longilineus 1968

Scinax obtriangulatus 1973

Scinax perpusillus 1939 with A. Lutz

Scinax trapicheiroi 1954 with A. Lutz

Scinax v-signatus 1968

Sphaenorhynchus orophilus 1938

Sphaenorhynchus planicola 1938

HONORS

Doctor Honoris Causa, Mills College, California, US

Genus Berthasaura de Souza, Soares, Weinschutz, Wilner, Lopes, Araújo & Kellner 2021 (Fossil Reptilia)

Bertha Lutz

BIOLOGIST

1894 - 1976

Bertha Lutz

Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz (2 August 1894 – 16 September 1976) was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat.

Held fellowship of the Carnegie Foundation for the study of the educational methods of American museums (1932). She took over as a congresswoman in 1936 and was one of Brazil’s representatives at the 1945 San Francisco Conference, which resulted in the United Nations Charter, playing a crucial role to the inclusion of equality between men and women in the Charter.

In addition to Brazilian particularities, the collections of this nomination help to shed light on the diversity of women’s movements in other countries as well.

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 and championing the inclusion of Article 8 in the Charter.