!!!Lorenz, Konrad

b. Vienna, Nov. 7, 1903, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 27, 1989, co-founder of ethology, behavioural 
scientist, Nobel prize winner for Medicine and Physiology in 1973 
(with K.  Frisch and N. Tinbergen) for the discovery of character 
patterns of the greylag goose, son of Adolf  Lorenz, brother of Albert 
 Lorenz.1940 Professor at the University of Koenigsberg, 1948 to 1950 
Head of the Institute of Ethology at Gut Altenberg near Vienna, 1954 
to 1973 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Science 
at Seewiesen (Germany), from 1973 head of the Department for Animal 
Sociology at the Institute for Comparative Behavioural Sciences of the 
Austrian Academy of Sciences; L. especially researched instinctive 
animal behaviour, the trigger effect following key stimuli as well as 
the phylogenetic development of innate behaviour. During his last 
years L. warned repeatedly of the dangers of environmental pollution, 
in connection with the plebiscite on the Zwentendorf nuclear power 
plant in 1978 he became a key figure of the emerging environmental 
protection movement.

!Works
Der Kumpan in der Umwelt des Vogels, 1935; Die angeborenen 
Formen moeglicher Erfahrung, 1943; Er redete mit dem Vieh, den Voegeln 
und den Fischen, 1949; So kam der Mensch auf den Hund, 1950; Das 
sogenannte Boese, 1963; Ueber tierisches und menschliches Verhalten, 
1965; Die Rueckseite des Spiegels, 1973; Vergleichende 
Verhaltensforschung, 1979; Der Abbau des Menschlichen, 1983.

!Literature
F. M. Wuketits, K. L., Leben und Werk eines 
grossen Naturforschers, 1990.



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