Career
His primary contribution to science was the collecting of specimens. He studied philosophy and medicine at the universities of Utrecht and Leiden from 1806. Subsequently he worked as a physician at a hospital in Utrecht.
In 1815 he became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the Athaneum in Harderwijk.
In 1819 he became adjunct professor of animal science at the Utrecht University. In 1820 he became professor of veterinary medicine and director of the Veterinary School in Utrecht, where he started in 1821 and taught until 1851.
He was also a professor of zoology and became Rector of his alma mater in 1833/34. Lidt de Jeude retired in October 1858 and died five years later.