Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk

Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk (April 29, 1887 in Breda – October 21, 1974 in Nijmegen) was a Dutch anthropologist, biologist and psychologist.

[1] In his younger years, acquaintance with Max Scheler, Hans Driesch and Helmuth Plessner (with whom he became friends) had a considerable influence on Buytendijk.

He corresponded with many great philosophers, such as Binswanger, Guardini, Merleau-Ponty and with Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

[2] Frederik (Frits) Buytendijk got his inspiration and method from different sources: the experiences he had since 1918 as an animal psychologist, and after the Second World War as a human psychologist, and from phenomenology, the doctrine that makes the phenomena speak for themselves.

In his General Theory of Human Posture and Movement (1949), Buytendijk succeeded in emphasizing a combination of body and mind.