{"id":"irenaus-eibl-eibesfeldt","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/irenaus-eibl-eibesfeldt","language":"en","name":"Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt","name_en":"Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt","name_ne":null,"description":"Austrian ethologist (1928–2018)","headline":"Austrian ethologist (1928–2018)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt was an Austrian zoologist, evolutionary biologist, behavioral scientist, and ethologist in the field of human ethology. In authoring the book titled \"Human Ethology,\" he applied ethology to humans by studying them in a perspective more common to volumes studying animal behavior.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"15 June 1928","date":"1928-06-15"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Vienna","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1741"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"2 June 2018","date":"2018-06-02"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Starnberg","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61936"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Austria","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"ethologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16831721"},{"text":"zoologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350979"},{"text":"evolutionary biologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16063497"},{"text":"scientist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q901"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Vienna","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165980"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Eleonore Eibl-Eibesfeldt","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121157693"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"president (1985–1993)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30461","start":"1985","end":"1993"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Bavarian Order of Merit","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q672787","date":"1997"},{"text":"Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10905276","date":"1995"},{"text":"Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18507211","date":"2003"},{"text":"Philip Morris Research Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1554462","date":"1988"},{"text":"Werner und Inge Grüter Prize for science communication","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1028915","date":"1998"},{"text":"honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50614979","date":"1994"},{"text":"International Nonino Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3910611","date":"2011"},{"text":"Austrian Decoration for Science and Art First Class","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61716864","date":"1998"},{"text":"Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40743212","date":"2005"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iren%C3%A4us_Eibl-Eibesfeldt","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt born?","a":"Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt was born on 15 June 1928 in Vienna."},{"q":"What positions has Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt held?","a":"Positions held by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt include: president (1985–1993)."},{"q":"Where did Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt study?","a":"Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt was educated at University of Vienna."}],"related":[{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"},{"name":"Gamal Abdel Nasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gamal-abdel-nasser"},{"name":"Mohamed Morsi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-morsi"},{"name":"Mohamed Naguib","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-naguib"},{"name":"Abdul Rahman Arif","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-rahman-arif"},{"name":"Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/muhammad-najib-ar-ruba-i"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/irenaus-eibl-eibesfeldt-7731fe6479.jpg","width":500,"height":326,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Christoph A. Hellhake","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_Iren%C3%A4us_Eibl-Eibesfeldt_01.tif"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iren%C3%A4us_Eibl-Eibesfeldt","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q78755","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78755","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Portrait Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt 01.tif by Christoph A. Hellhake (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_Iren%C3%A4us_Eibl-Eibesfeldt_01.tif","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Portrait Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt 01.tif — Christoph A. Hellhake, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/irenaus-eibl-eibesfeldt. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-03T07:02:53Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-06","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/irenaus-eibl-eibesfeldt","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/irenaus-eibl-eibesfeldt","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/irenaus-eibl-eibesfeldt?lang=ne"}}