His father is a medical professor at Vienna University and an internationally renowned plastic surgeon. His eldest brother inherited his father's business, so Lorenz was prepared to study medicine at an early age with the expectation of his family. However, when he spent his summer vacation in the country with his family at the age of 9, he fell in love with outdoor life and has always liked to study animal behavior since then. However, at his father's insistence, he went to new york Columbia University to study medicine on 1922, and unexpectedly found that comparative anatomy and embryology were more suitable for explaining biological behavior patterns than paleontology, and he also studied psychology. He returned to Vienna on 1923 and continued to study medicine at Vienna University. During college, he studied comparative anatomy and began to study animal behavior with comparative anatomy. In the book "Social Behavior of Birds" published by 1935, he summarized his comparative research on more than 30 kinds of birds, and analyzed the behavioral functions of parents, young birds, sexual spouses and other relatives and the conditions that caused these behaviors. This book is a model of using comparative methods to study animal behavior. 65438-0928 stayed in school as an associate professor after receiving a doctorate in medicine. Due to his lack of interest in medical work, he finally returned to Vienna University to study zoology, and received his doctorate in zoology from Munich University from 65438 to 0936. In the same year, he founded the German Society of Animal Psychology and edited the Journal of Animal Psychology.

1937- 1940 teaches animal psychology and comparative anatomy at the university of Vienna, 1940 is the head of psychology department at the university of konigsberg, Germany. During the period of 1938, he joined the Nazis for supporting Nazi opinions and opinions and Nazi ethnology. During World War II, he worked as a doctor in the German army 1942- 1944, and had the opportunity to gain some first-hand knowledge about nervous system diseases, especially Hershey's disease, as well as mental illness, especially schizophrenia. 1944 was captured by the Soviet Union. Because of his medical knowledge, he is respected by the Russians. He is in charge of the 600-bed department of Chalturin Hospital. 1948 returned to teach at Vienna university after his release. In the same year, he founded the Institute of Behavioral Comparison in oldenburg and served as its director. Marx-Planck Institute of Behavioral Physiology was founded in 1950, and its director is 195 1 year. 1957- 1973 is an adjunct professor at the University of Munich, and 1958- 1973 is the director of Max Planck Institute of Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen (near Steinberg). 1973 won the nobel prize in physiology or medicine with K. Frish and Nicholas dingbergen for his research on animal behavior patterns, and retired in the same year.