Antal Festetics
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Antal Festetics, exactly (born June 12, 1937, Budapest
Budapest
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, Hungary
Hungary
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), is a Hungarian-Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n biologist
Biologist
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, zoologist and behavioural researcher. A student of Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch...

, since 1973 he is a university professor and director of the Institute for Hunting Biology at the University of Göttingen, since 1981 honorary professor at the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

. Since 1980 he is president of the Konrad-Lorenz-Gesellschaft für Umwelt und Verhaltenskunde. He was awarded for the establishment of national parks in Austria und Hungary, as well as the Austrian State Prize for Environmental Protection in 1988.
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