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Name
  
Thure Uexkull

Role
  
Jakob von Uexkull\'s son


Parents
  
Jakob von Uexkull

Books
  
Psychosomatic Medicine

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Died
  
September 29, 2004, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Karl Kuno Thure Baron von Üxküll (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.

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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

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