Lorenz died on February 27, 1989, in Altenberg. Lorenz retired from the Max Planck Institute in 1973 but continued to research and publish from Altenberg, Austria (his family home, near Vienna) and Grünau im Almtal in Austria. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discoveries in individual and social behavior patterns" with two other important early ethologists, Niko Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. In 1958, Lorenz transferred to the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen. The Max Planck Society established the Lorenz Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Buldern, Germany, in 1950. He joined the Wehrmacht in 1941, and was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1948. In 1940 he became a professor of psychology at the Immanuel Kant University in Königsberg (later the Soviet port of Kaliningrad). At this university he became an assistant professor from 1928 to 1935. In his autobiographical essay, published in 1973 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 with Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which filled him with a great enthusiasm about wild geese.Īt the request of his father, Lorenz began to study medicine in 1922 at the Premedical School of Columbia University, but he returned to Vienna in 1923 to continue his studies at the University of Vienna until 1928. 2.1 Lorenz's vision of the challenges facing humanity.
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