Friedrich S. Rothschild

Who is Friedrich S. Rothschild?

Friedrich Salomon Rothschild was a Jewish psychiatrist and semiotician. He has coined the term biosemiotic in his work of 1962.

He worked in Heidelberg with psychotherapist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, and in Frankfurt with Kurt Goldstein. He was influenced by the philosophy of Ludwig Klages with whom he corresponded.

In 1935, he published the book “Symbolik des Hirnbaus: Erscheinungswissenschaftliche Untersuchung über den Bau und die Funktionen des Zentralnervensystems der Wirbeltiere und des Menschen”. He has developed the communicative approach in biology.