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

1. Regarding personal names: Freiherr is a former title (translated as Baron). In Germany since 1919, it forms part of family names. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin.

• 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.