focus on psychiatric research. By 1948 Rothschild was working as a consultant at Hadassah University Hospital. In November of 1949, Rothschild published »Das Ich und die Regulationen des Erlebnisvorganges«, and subsequently in 1958, »Das Zentralnervensystem als Symbol des Erlebens«. In 1961 F.S Rothschild coined the term “biosemiotics” in a lecture for the New York Academy of Sciences, a theory that was influenced by the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Charles Peirce. Rothschild retired from Hadassah University Hospital in 1965 and dedicated his time to lecturing about his findings. In 1981, Rothschild helped to found the World Associated for Dynamic Psychiatry, acting as the Honorary President of the Israeli Branch. 1986 saw the publication of Rothschild’s »Die Evolution als innere Anpassung an Gott«. Friedrich Rothschild passed away on March 6th, 1995. References 1899 births 1995 deaths German semioticians German psychiatrists Jewish scientists