Doris Zumpe

Doris Zumpe, Emory University Emeritas College Member, died peacefully at her home on February 7, 2017. She was born on May 18, 1940 in Germany and survived postwar Germany with her family, fighting starvation in the basement of a church during the Berlin Blitz. The family was airlifted to London where Doris grew up in Aylesbury and in 1970 received her PhD in the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London.

During her scientific training, she spent four years working with the Nobel Laureate Konrad Lorenz at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen studying the behavior of geese.

Always loving animals, Doris became an ethologist, doing research on the effects of hormones on the behavior of rhesus monkeys in the laboratory of renowned scientist Dr. Richard P. Michael.

In 1972, Dr. Michael’s entire laboratory was moved to the Department of Psychiatry at Emory, with Doris receiving a recommendation to join the move from Konrad Lorenz. Drs. Zumpe and Michael continued their very productive collaboration , writing the books Elements of Behavorial Science andNeuroendorcrine Aspects of Primate Sexual Behavior

Doris retired in 2005 as Emory Professor Emerita of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and besides research she had also taught undergraduate courses in human and animal behavior in the Biology Department from 1992 until her retirement.

An accomplished musician playing both the cello and viola da gamba, Doris was as well a very talented artist in watercolor and pen and ink.

She is survived by Nephew Mark Zumpe of Farham, England, his wife Jo and daughter, Claire and her beloved sister-in-law Naomi Zumpe. Also surviving her in Germany are numerous cousins. In America she will be greatly missed and admired for her intelligence, warm nature, and generosity by many friends and colleagues, a godson Gregory Bishop, and close friends J.D. Isaacs and Martha Bishop.

Arrangements under the direction of Advantage Funeral & Cremation Service, Lilburn, GA.