Background
T.W. van Lidth de Jeude was born on 1 February 1853 in Helmond, about 15 km east of Eindhoven.
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He attended the University of Utrecht where his grandfather, T.G. van Lidth de Jeude, taught zoology and veterinary science. Theorodus Willem received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1882 for a thesis on coleopteran larvae. Between 1882 and 1884 he studied fishes in Naples and at Kralingen (near Rotterdam).
Career
In 1884, he became curator of Lower Vertebrates at the Rijksmuseum in Leiden. He retired from his curatorship in 1923 but kept working at the museum until 1931. T.W. von Lidth de Jeude died in Leiden on 29 May 1937.
Lidth de Jeude described many species, e.g.
23 species of reptiles that are still recognized today, including
Anomochilus weberi (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1890)
Aphaniotis ornata (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1893)
Arthrosaura kockii (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1904)
Arthrosaura versteegii LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1904
Asthenodipsas tropidonotus (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1923)
Calamaria crassa LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1922
Calamaria prakkei LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1893
Cnemidophorus arubensis LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1887
Dendrelaphis lorentzi (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1911)
Dopasia buettikoferi (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1905)
Eremiascincus emigrans (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1895)
Gonatodes antillensis (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1887)
Hemidactylus tenkatei LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1895
Lamprolepis nieuwenhuisii (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1905)
Opisthotropis rugosa (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1890)
Phyllodactylus martini LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1887
Sphenomorphus buettikoferi (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1905)
Trimeresurus hageni (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1886)
Tropidonophis montanus (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1911)
Tropidonophis novaeguineae (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1911)
Tropidophorus iniquus LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1905
Tropidophorus micropus LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1905
Tytthoscincus hallieri (LIDTH Delaware JEUDE 1905).
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Netherlands