“s Ring, On Aggression, and Man Meets Dog, became popular reading. His last work Here I Am – Where Are You? is a summary of his life”
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Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz 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, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
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science · Austrian zoologist (1903–1989) · ethologist · zoologist · university teacher · writer · physician · philosopher · psychologist · naturalist · director · scientist · also Konrad Lorenz, Konrad Z. Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz, Lorenz
Born 7 November 1903 · Died 27 February 1989 · Q78496
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech | Taylor Lorenz
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2022· 1 entry
Published “High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models” in 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) — cited 15,411 times.
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2015· 2 entries
The University of Salzburg posthumously rescinded an honorary doctorate awarded to Lorenz in 1983, citing his party membership and his assertions in his application that he was "always a National Socialist", and that his
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Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband) in 1984
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2002· 1 entry
Ranked Lorenz the 65th most cited scholar of the 20th century in the technical psychology journals, introductory psychology textbooks, and survey responses
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1989· 1 entry
Died 1989-02-27.
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1984).
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Became the figurehead of the Konrad Lorenz Volksbegehren, a grass-roots movement that was formed to prevent the building of a power plant at the Danube near Hainburg an der Donau and thus the destruction of the surroundi
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Vienna (1983).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Salzburg University (1983).
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1973· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1973).
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Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1974
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In Les Prix Nobel (winners of the prizes are requested to provide such essays), Lorenz credits his career to his parents, who "were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals", and to his childhood encounter wi
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But continued to research and publish from Altenberg and Grünau im Almtal in Austria
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1969· 5 entries
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1969).
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Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1969).
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Awarded Kalinga Prize (1969).
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Gold Medal of the Humboldt Society in 1972Rupke, Nicolaas (2008)
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Became the first recipient of the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
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1964· 3 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1964).
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Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1964).
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Elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1966
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1963· 1 entry
Published “Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow” in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences — cited 10,343 times.
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences (1959).
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1958· 1 entry
Lorenz transferred to the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen
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1957· 1 entry
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1964
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1944· 2 entries
Where he quickly became a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1948
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Was sent to the Eastern Front, where he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and spent four years as a German prisoner of war in Soviet Armenia
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1942· 1 entry
Where in reality he was only sent to the front and captured in 1944, leaving out entirely his involvement with the Poznań project
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1941· 1 entry
Was recruited into the German Army as a medic
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1940· 1 entry
Became a professor of psychology at the University of Königsberg
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1938· 1 entry
And accepted a university chair under the Nazi regime
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1936· 2 entries
At an international scientific symposium on instinct, Lorenz met his great friend and colleague Nikolaas Tinbergen
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Met Tinbergen, and the two collaborated in developing ethology as a separate sub-discipline of biology
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1933· 1 entry
Studied at University of Vienna, Doctor of Philosophy (1933).
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1928· 2 entries
Studied at University of Vienna, Doctor of Medicine (1923–1928).
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And became an assistant professor at the Institute of Anatomy until 1935
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1923· 1 entry
Studied at Columbia University, undergraduate education (1922–1923).
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1922· 1 entry
At Columbia University, but returned to Vienna in 1923 to continue his studies at the University of Vienna
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-11-07.
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