Thure von Uexküll

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Thure von Uexküll (March 15, 1908, Heidelberg - Sept. 29, 2004, Freiburg, Germany) was a leading German scholar of psychosomatic medicine and biosemiotics. He has developed his father's approach in the study of living systems and applied it in medicine.

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[edit] Life

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

[edit] Awards

Honorary Doctor of the University of Tartu (1994)

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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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