Thure von Uexküll was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 scholar of psychosomatic medicine and biosemiotics

Biosemiotics

Biosemiotics is a growing field that studies the production, action and interpretation of signs in the biological realm...

. He has developed the approach of his father, Jakob von Uexküll

Jakob von Uexküll

Jakob Johann von Uexküll was a Estonian biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology, animal behaviour studies, and the cybernetics of life. However, his most notable contribution is the notion of umwelt, used by semiotician Thomas Sebeok...

, in the study of living systems and applied it in medicine.

Life

1955-1965: Director of the Medical Outpatient Department at the University of Giessen

University of Giessen

The University of Giessen is officially called the Justus Liebig University Giessen after its most famous faculty member, Justus von Liebig, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser.-History:The University of Gießen is among the oldest institutions of...

1966-1977: Director of the Department of Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics at the University of Ulm

University of Ulm

The University of Ulm is a public university in the city of Ulm, in the South German state of Baden-Württemberg. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer science...

Works

• Der Sinn des Lebens (with Jakob von Uexküll
  Jakob von Uexküll
  Jakob Johann von Uexküll was a Estonian biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology, animal behaviour studies, and the cybernetics of life. However, his most notable contribution is the notion of umwelt, used by semiotician Thomas Sebeok...
  
  ). Godesberg: H.Küpper (1947).
• Psychosomatic Medicine. München: Urban & Schwarzenberg (1997).
• Theorie der Humanmedizin (with Wolfgang Wesiack). München: Urban & Schwarzenberg (1998).