Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt is founder of the field of Human Ethology. In authoring the book which bears that title, he applied ethology to humans by studying them in a perspective more common to volumes studying animal behavior.
Born June 15, 1928 in Vienna,
Austria) Eibl-Eibesfeldt studied Zoology at the
University of Vienna 1945-1949. From 1946 to 1948 he was research associate at the
Biological Station Wilhelminenberg near Vienna and became research associate of the Institute for Comparative Behavior Studies in
Altenberg near Vienna with Konrad Lorenz in 1949. 1951 to 1969 he worked at the
Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology (first in
Westphalia, from 1957 at Seewiesen, Bavaria). 1970 he became Professor for Zoology at the
In the first twenty years of his work as an animal ethologist he investigated experimentally and descriptively the development of behavior of mammals and compared the behavior of communication of vertebrates. His is the author of many books like Love and Hate: The Natural History of Behavior Patterns.
He married Eleonore Eibl-Eibesfeldt in 1950. They have two children, Bernolf and Roswitha.
External links
- Eibl-Eibesfeldt's homepage
- Biography
- International Society for Human Ethology
- Homepage of lecture for Human Ethology at the University Innsbruck several PDF-documents in English
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