The Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz was one of the pioneers of modern ethology, the comparative study of animal behavior. Also noted for his views on aggression, Lorenz was a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1973. Konrad...

(born Nov. 7, 1903, Vienna, Austria—died Feb. 27, 1989, Altenburg) Austrian zoologist, founder of modern ethology, the study of animal behaviour by means of comparative zoological methods. His ideas contributed to an understanding of how...

1903-1989 Austrian Zoologist and Ethologist Konrad Lorenz is most well-known as a founder of the field known as ethology, and for his research into animal behavior. As the study of animal behavior became more extensive after the turn of the century,...

Zoologist and Ethologist 1903-1989 Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and Nobel Prize winner Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was born in Vienna in 1903, the son of a fabulously wealthy orthopedic surgeon. He spent his childhood roaming the forests and marshes of...

(born Nov. 7, 1903, Vienna, Austria—died Feb. 27, 1989, Altenburg) Zoologist and founder (with Nikolaas Tinbergen) of modern ethology. While still a schoolboy he nursed sick animals from the nearby zoo. In 1935 he first elucidated and...

1903-1989 Austrian zoologist who was a cofounder of ethology, the science of animal behavior. He received a medical degree in 1928 and a Ph.D. in zoology in 1933 from the University of Vienna. Thereafter he studied instinctive animal behavior in...

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 in Vienna – February 27, 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and ornithologist. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began...