Jakob von Uexküll

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Baltic German biologist, zoologist, and philosopher (1864-1944)

ScientistsLived 1864 to 1944 · aged 79

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Jakob Johann Freiherr von Uexküll was a Baltic German biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology and animal behaviour studies and was an influence on the cybernetics of life.

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"Early Scheme for a circular Feedback Circle" from Theoretische Biologie 1920

Small circular Feedback Pictograms between the Text

Schematic view of a cycle as an early biocyberneticist

Coat of arms of the Uradel Uexküll family, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882[15]

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honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht

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ChildThure von Uexküll

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Dana ScottAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht

Anthony van HobokenAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht

Pierre CuypersAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht

Johan WagenaarAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht

Hartmut RosaAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht

Jean CarbonnierAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht

About this person

Jakob Johann Freiherr von Uexküll was a Baltic German biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology and animal behaviour studies and was an influence on the cybernetics of life. However, his most notable contribution is the notion of Umwelt, used by semiotician Thomas Sebeok and philosopher Martin Heidegger. His works established biosemiotics as a field of research.