Herwig Grimm

Herwig Grimm (b. 1978 in Amstetten, Austria) is a trained farmer and philosopher. He specialized in moral philosophy and is interested in methodological questions in practice-oriented ethics, agricultural ethics, and animal ethics. After his agricultural training he spent a few years on farms in the UK, Austria and Germany. During this time, he entered various fields of ethical questions like the ethics of human-animal relation on farms, economic constraints and moral responsibility, genetically modified crop etc. Such questions brought him to study philosophy and applied ethics in Salzburg, Zurich and Munich. Throughout his studies he focused on the conflict of practical constraints and moral ideals and methods to bring ethics into practice. He received his doctor’s degree in philosophy from the Munich School of Philosophy. After seven years at the Institute Technik-Theologie-Naturwissenschaften at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich he moved back to Austria. Since 2011 he holds the chair for Ethics and Human-Animal Studies at the Messerli Research Institute (University of Veterinary Medicine and University Vienna).