Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt

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Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Born	(1928-06-15)15 June 1928 Vienna, First Austrian Republic
Died	2 June 2018(2018-06-02) (aged 89) Starnberg, Germany
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Scientific career
Fields	Ethology
Institutions	University of Vienna

Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (German pronunciation:

Education and work

Born in

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 as Love and Hate: The Natural History of Behavior Patterns and Human Ethology.

Personal life

He married Eleonore Eibl-Eibesfeldt in 1950. They had two children, Bernolf and Roswitha.

Eibl-Eibesfeldt died on 2 June 2018 in Starnberg, at age 89.^[2]

For many years he dived with Hans Hass on his diving boat Xarifa.^[3]

Decorations and awards

• 1971 Gold Medal of the cosmos Bölsche Society for Services to the dissemination of scientific knowledge
• 1981 Burda Prize for Communication Research
• 1988 Philip Morris Research Prize
• 1989 Gold Honorary Medal of Vienna
• 1994 Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Salamanca, Spain
• 1995
  Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1996 National Park bubble[
  Natural History Museum of Vienna and the Danube-Auen National Park
  Academy
• 1996 Schwenk'scher Environmental Award of Ebersberg
• 1997 Gold Medal of the Drs Haackert Foundation, awarded for outstanding contributions to the study of human behaviour
• 1997 Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1997 years prize of the Foundation for Western consciousness (STAB) from Zurich
• 1998
  Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class^[4]
• 1998 Inge and Werner Grüter Award for successful science communication for services to the marine biology and Riffforschung
• 1999 "Premio Catedra Santiago Grisolía" for contributions to the study of the ethology of the people and the aggressiveness
• 1999 "Al mérito" awarded by the
  Charles Darwin Foundation
  , Ecuador
• 2001 Honorary award from the
  Galapagos Islands
• 2003 Gold Medal for services to the City of Vienna
• 2005 Honorary Doctorate of Psychology at the University of Bologna, Italy