Education
University of Groningen.
biologist ornithologist university professor Zoologist
University of Groningen.
He was appointed in 1949 by Gerard Baerends to the University of Groningen, where he developed important concepts in ethology. He was influenced to specialize in ethology by ethogist brother Niko with whom he was very close, but he also was influenced by January to introduce a level of quantitative analysis not previously utilized in ethology. Tinbergen committed suicide in 1955 at the age of 39.
Tinbergen"s younger son, Joost Tinbergen, is also a biologist.