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Albrecht von Haller
Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708–1777)
Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 1708 – 12 December 1777) was a Swissanatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet.
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A pupil of Herman Boerhaave and Jacob Winslow,[1] he is sometimes referred to as "the father of modern physiology."[2][3]
Early life
Haller was born into an old Swiss family at Bern.
Prevented by long-continued ill-health from taking part in boyish sports, he had more opportunity for the development of his precocious mind. At the age of four, it is said, he used to read and expound the Bible to his father's servants; before he was ten he had sketched a Biblical Aramaic grammar, prepared a Greek and a Hebrew vocabulary, compiled a collection of two thousand biographies of famous men and women on the model of the great works of Bayle and Moréri, and written in Lati