Thure von Uexküll
Karl Kuno Thure Freiherr[1] von Uexküll (March 15, 1908, Heidelberg – September 29, 2004, Freiburg) was a German scholar of psychosomatic medicine and biosemiotics. He developed the approach of his father, Jakob von Uexküll, in the study of living systems and applied it in medicine.
Thure von Uexküll in 1915 with his father
His mother was Gudrun Baroness von Uexküll (Gräfin von Schwerin).
Career
- 1955–1965
- Director of the Medical Outpatient Department at the University of Giessen
- 1966–1977
- Director of the Department of Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics at the University of Ulm
Awards
Honorary Doctor of the University of Tartu (1994)
Works
- Der Sinn des Lebens (with Jakob von Uexküll). Godesberg: H.Küpper (1947).
- Psychosomatic Medicine. München: Urban & Schwarzenberg (1997).
- Theorie der Humanmedizin (with Wolfgang Wesiack). München: Urban & Schwarzenberg (1998).
References
- Martin Krampen 2004. Thure von Uexküll - Arzt, Wissenschaftler, Semiotiker. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 26(3/4): 421–428.
- Kalevi Kull; Jesper Hoffmeyer 2005. Thure von Uexküll 1908–2004. Sign Systems Studies 33(2): 487–494.
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