Karl Kuno Thure Freiherr von Uexküll (March 15, 1908,

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) was a German scholar of psychosomatic medicine and

biosemiotics Biosemiotics (from the Ancient Greek, Greek βίος ''bios'', "life" and σημειωτικός ''sēmeiōtikos'', "observant of signs") is a field of semiotics (especially Neurosemiotics) and biology that studies the prelinguistic meaning-makin ...

. 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 The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

(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).

References

* Martin Krampen 2004. Thure von Uexküll - Arzt, Wissenschaftler, Semiotiker. ''Zeitschrift für Semiotik'' 26(3/4): 421–428. *

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'' 33(2): 487–494. 1908 births 2004 deaths Physicians from Heidelberg People from the Grand Duchy of Baden German semioticians Academic staff of the University of Giessen Academic staff of the University of Ulm Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 5th Class {{semiotician-stub