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Thure von Uexküll

1908 – 2004

German semiotician

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Lived 1908 – 2004 (aged 96). Thure von Uexküll was a German and Russian professor, biosemiotician, university teacher, physician, internist and philosopher.

Karl Kuno Thure Freiherr 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.

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). Der Mensch und die Natur. Grundzüge einer Naturphilosophie. Bern: Francke (1953). Grundfragen der psychosomatischen Medizin. Hamburg: Rowohlt (1963). Signs, Symbols and Systems. In: T. Sebeok, R. Posner (Hg): A semiotic Landscape. Den Haag, Paris, New York (1974), 487–492. Lehrbuch der psychosomatischen Medizin. Urban und Schwarzenberg, München; Wien; Baltimore (1979) Die Umweltlehre als Theorie der Zeichenprozesse. In: Th v. Uexküll (Hg): Kompositionslehre der Natur. Biologie als undogmatische Naturwissenschaft; ausgewählte Schriften. Frankfurt, Berlin, Wien: Ullstein (1980) Semiotics and medicine. In: Semiotica 38 (1982), 3/4: 205–215. Semiotics and the problem of the observer. In: Semiotica 48 (1984), 3/4: 187–195. Zeichen und Realität als anthroposemiotisches Problem. In: Oehler, Klaus (Hrsg.): Zeichen und Realität. Tübingen, Stauffenburg-Verlag (1984), 1: 61–72. Medicine and Semiotics. In: Semiotica, 61 (1986), 3/4: 201–217. Die Wissenschaft von dem Lebendigen. In: Perspektiven der Philosophie. Neues Jahrbuch (1987), 13: 451–461. Theorie der Humanmedizin. Grundlagen ärztlichen Denkens und Handelns. (with Wolfgang Wesiack): München: Urban und Schwarzenberg (1988) Naturwissenschaft als Zeichenlehre. In: Merkur (1989), 43: 225–234. Die Bedeutung der Semiotik für die Medizin. In: P. Rusterholz, M. Svilar (Ed). Welt der Zeichen - Welt der Wirklichkeit, Berner Universitätsschriften, Band 38, Verlag Paul Haupt (1993), 38: 85–100. Endosemiosis. (together with Werner Geigges und Jörg Hermann) In: Semiotica, (1993), 96, 1/2, 5–51. Biosemiose. In: R.Posner, K. Robering, T. Sebeok (Ed.). Semiotik. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, (1997), 447–457. Endosemiose. In: R. Posner, K. Robering, T. Sebeok (Hg.). Semiotik. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, (1997), 464–487. Psychosomatic Medicine. München: Urban & Schwarzenberg (1997). Theorie der Humanmedizin (with Wolfgang Wesiack). München: Urban & Schwarzenberg (1998).

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, University of Giessen, Ulm University
Also known as
Karl Kuno Thure Baron von Üxküll

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Who was Thure von Uexküll?

German semiotician (1908–2004)

When was Thure von Uexküll born?

Thure von Uexküll was born on 15 March 1908 in Heidelberg.

When did Thure von Uexküll die?

Thure von Uexküll died on 29 September 2004 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

What was Thure von Uexküll's occupation?

Thure von Uexküll was a professor, biosemiotician, university teacher, physician, internist and philosopher.

What nationality was Thure von Uexküll?

Thure von Uexküll was German and Russian.

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