Konrad Lorenz

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Konrad Lorenz, photography by: Hans J. Böning

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.

Literature

(in German unless noted)

  • Das sogenannte Böse. Zur Naturgeschichte der Agression, Vienna: Borotha-Schoeler, 1963; Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1983.
    • On Aggression, trans. Marjorie Kerr Wilson, 1966; London & New York: Routledge, 2002; 2005. (in English)
  • Vergleichende Verhaltensforschung: Grundlagen der Ethologie, Vienna and New York: Springer, 1978.
    • The Foundations of Ethology, 1982. (in English)

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