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Adolf
[ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1854–1946, Austrian orthopedic surgeon.
Konrad (Zacharias) [kon-rad zak-uh-rahy-uh s;; German kawn-raht tsah-khah-ree-ahs] /ˈkɒn ræd ˌzæk əˈraɪ əs;; German ˈkɔn rɑt ˌtsɑ xɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1903–1989, Austrian ethologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1973.
Contemporary Examples

Coded references to risqué and sexual matters were catnip to the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Cole Porter.
When Broadway Musicals Were Dark And Subversive Laurence Maslon December 15, 2014

Historical Examples

She did not love, nor did she respect Lorenz, who was not favorably supplied with civilized intelligence.
Graustark George Barr McCutcheon

I guess, from the looks of things, most folks would have thought it would be the Lorenz girl.
K Mary Roberts Rinehart

Her highness has just placed in my hands an order for your arrest as the assassin of Prince Lorenz.
Graustark George Barr McCutcheon

She described the antecedents and characteristics of Lorenz.
Olive in Italy Moray Dalton

Georg, the father of Lorenz, was well established as an armourer when he was joined in 1467 by his famous son.
Armour in England J. Starkie Gardner

Prince Lorenz is also here, and these gray fellows are a part of his retinue.
Graustark George Barr McCutcheon

They would eat a stuffy Lorenz dinner, and in the evening Christine would sit in the lamplight and drive him mad with soft music.
K Mary Roberts Rinehart

Lorenz was a good-looking young fellow, little more than a boy.
Graustark George Barr McCutcheon

Now however that he is blind, he can’t see to read it; so I have bought it for young master Lorenz, our William here; and lo!
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Ludwig Tieck

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Konrad Zacharias (ˈkɔnraːt tsaxaˈriːas) 1903–89, Austrian zoologist, who founded ethology. His works include On Aggression (1966): shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1973