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Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt | |
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| Born | (1928-06-15)15 June 1928 |
| Died | 2 June 2018(2018-06-02) (aged 89) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
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| Fields | Ethology |
| Institutions | University of Vienna |
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (German pronunciation:[irɛˈnɛːʊsˌaɪ̯bl̩ʔˈaɪ̯bəsfɛlt]ⓘ; 15 June 1928 – 2 June 2018) was an Austrianethologist in the field ofhuman ethology.[1] In authoring the book which bears that title, he appliedethology tohumans by studying them in a perspective more common to volumes studying animal behavior.
Born inVienna, Austria, Eibl-Eibesfeldt studiedzoology[1] at theUniversity of Vienna from 1945 to 1949. From 1946 to 1948 he was research associate at the Biological Station Wilhelminenberg near Vienna and became a research associate of the Institute for Comparative Behavior Studies in Altenberg near Vienna withKonrad Lorenz in 1949. Between 1951 and 1969 he worked at theMax Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology (first inWestphalia, from 1957 atSeewiesen,Bavaria). In 1970 he became Professor for Zoology at theUniversity of Munich. From 1975 he was the head of theMax Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Department of Human Ethology inAndechs, Germany. He was the co-founder and first president of theInternational Society for Human Ethology. From 1992 he was Honorary Director of theLudwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology in Vienna.
In the first 20 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. He was the author of many books such asLove and Hate: The Natural History of Behavior Patterns andHuman Ethology.
He married Eleonore Eibl-Eibesfeldt in 1950. They had two children, Bernolf and Roswitha.
Eibl-Eibesfeldt died on 2 June 2018 inStarnberg, at age 89.[2]
For many years he dived withHans Hass on his diving boatXarifa.[3]
