行動学会 MailNews (141) September 30

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・Konrad Lorenz House Altenberg のお知らせ

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We are writing to you to introduce an exciting initiative, "Konrad 
Lorenz House Altenberg" and to ask for your support. Early next year we 
intend to open the Konrad Lorenz House Altenberg, part of the old Lorenz 
family villa
in Altenberg near Vienna, as a museum, educational institution, and an 
archive for the general public. The Konrad Lorenz House Altenberg will 
serve as the home not only for the Lorenz Archive and Library, but also 
for all information on Konrad Lorenz, his work and his life. It is our 
hope to make the work of this renown scientist freely accessible to 
anyone who may be interested.

Konrad Lorenz was one of the leading founders of the field of ethology. 
Many scientists, students and lay people were first introduced to the 
observation and understanding of animals through his book King Solomon's 
Ring. His discoveries and theoretical considerations inspired a large 
body of scientific endeavors. Lorenz was a pioneer who developed a new 
seminal approach to the understanding of animals and animal behavior 
within evolutionary science. The main focus of the project is on the 
scientific heritage of Lorenz's work but his relation to the changing 
cultural and political milieu in his lifetime will also be explored.

Most of the information will be accessible online at http://klha.at so 
as to be available worldwide. The permanently growing website already 
holds a list of about 180 papers by Lorenz (two thirds in full text 
already), a comprehensive list of about 100 papers and books about 
Lorenz (with links, full text, or descriptions), his extensive cv 
(including a history of ideas), many papers that influenced Lorenz, 
original movies, interviews and much more.

There is still a lot to do including, as a priority, the English 
translation of the cv and all comments and explanations, also more full-
text of his English papers. We also intend to open the private photo 
collection to the public. We hope to get the rights to publish his books 
online. The projects are too numerous to list here but we hope this 
gives you an idea of our intent.

We believe it is important to make scientific knowledge freely 
accessible to everyone and your financial support will help us to 
fulfill this aim. Every donation, large or small, will help us to 
continue this work. Please check out http://klha.at/support.html

Thank you.


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