Detlev Ploog, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Detlev Ploog

German anthropologist

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1920

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Dec-2005

Profession: psychiatrist, anthropologist, neuroscientist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Detlev Ploog (29 November 1920 – 7 December 2005) was a German clinical psychiatrist, primate behavior researcher and anthropologist.
He was a soldier in the Second World War, attained a doctorate in Heidelberg, was a director of Munich Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry and a professor at the University of Munich In addition he received the German Order of Merit (1980) and was a member of many years of a commission of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.