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Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat.

Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement. 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.

In addition to her political work, she was a naturalist at the National Museum of Brazil, specializing in poison dart frogs.

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She has three frog species and two lizard species named after her.

Bertha Lutz was born in São Paulo. Her father, Adolfo Lutz (1855–1940), was a pioneering physician and epidemiologist of Swiss origin, and her mother, Amy Marie Gertrude Fowler, was a British nurse.

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