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Albrecht von Haller: Greatest and influential biologist of the 18th century. He is credited as the “father of experimental physiology”.

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Albrecht von Haller – greatest and influential biologist of the 18th century. He is credited as the “father of experimental physiology”. He contributed further into anatomy, physiology, embryology, botany and poetry. The way he practised research laid the foundation of experimental physiology.

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EARLY LIFE

  • Born: 16th October 1708
  • Place: Bern, Switzerland
  • Family: 5th child of Niklaus Emanuel Haller and Anna Maria Engel. His mother died when he was quite young and was raised further by his stepmother Salome Neuhaus.
  • Education: Earliest education was through a pastor. He attended public school for a year and a half, when his father died. He was a child prodigy and gifted in languages, having written several metrical translations from Ovid, Horace and Virgil, all before he was 15 years old.
  • 1722-1723 Haller lived with his step-uncle who was a physician, aiding him in furthering his studies. He began to write poetry and wanted to become a physician.

EARLY CAREER

  • 1724-1725 he studied medicine at Tübingen. He studied botany and anatomy from Johann Duvernoy. He studied the form and function of one organ after the other, and helped to launch anatomy as an experimental science. This enforced the dynamic rules of physiology. Become the first person to give a detailed explanation of respiration.
  • 1725 He went to the University of Leiden and got his doctorate in 1727 at the age of eighteen, where he defended his thesis which proved that the salivary duct was actually a blood vessel.
  • 1727-1728 he did an academic tour of London, Oxford, Paris and Strasbourg ending in Basel. In Basel he studied advance mathematics with Johann I Bernoulli in 1728.
  • He made an alpine journey which furthered his knowledge in botany, and also began his botanical collection. This formed the basis of his Swiss flora research.
  • 1728-1729 lectured for a semester on anatomy while still conducting anatomy investigations.
  • 1728 Haller began to build up a herbarium
  • 1729 Haller returned to Bern to practice medicine, enlarged his herbarium and also gave private lessons.
  • 1732 published his poetry book called “Die Alpen”
  • 1732 published a book of verse called Versuch Schweizerischer Gedichte, adding poet to his career.
  • 1736-1753 he became the professor of anatomy, surgery and botany at the University of Göttingen.
  • Haller organised a new botanical garden at the university as well as an anatomical theatre and museum.
  • 1742 Haller published his book on Flora of Switzerland.
  • Haller contributions to botanical taxonomy that are less visible today because he resisted binomial nomenclature.
  • Haller realized the importance of herbaria and studying them. He purposely included material from different places, habitats and developmental phases.
  • Haller also grew many plants from the Alps himself.
  • The plant genus Halleria, an attractive shrub from Southern Africa, was named in his honour by Carl Linnaeus.
  • 1745 Haller was elected member of the cantonal council of Bern, hoping for a political career.
  • 1747 Haller wrote his first textbook of physiology, Primae lineae physiologiae.

LATER LIFE AND LEGACY

  • 1753 Haller became the first to prove that sensibility existed only in organs with nerves. This got published in De partibus corporis humani sensibilibus et irritabilibus. Resigned his post at Göttingen.
  • 1753 – Carl Linnaeus’s used shorthand for species, marking the starting point for botanical nomenclature as accepted today.
  • Because Haller rejected the binary nomenclature system, his botany work was not notable and his names, for approximately 300 newly described flowering plants, are not valid.
  • 1758-1764 he lived in Roche as director of the Bern saltworks.
  • He wrote and published an eight-volume Elementa physiologiae corporis humani.
  • Combining his scientific and literary work with his public service work, in political and administrative affairs.
  • His work reflected in the school system for the orphans and sanitary council.
  • During this time Haller made discoveries in embryology. (The study of prenatal development, fertilization, and development of embryos and fetuses.)
  • His embryology work can be dated back to 1740.
  • 1771-1772 Haller wrote a two-volume botanical book called Bibliotheca botanica.
  • 1777, December 12th Haller died at the age of 69.

PERSONAL LIFE

  • Haller married three times.
  • 1736 – first wife, Marianne Wyss, having two sons and a daughter.
  • 1741 – Elisabeth Bucher
  • His third wife was Amalia Teichmeyer who he had two sons and three daughters with.
  • Suffering from headaches, Haller was plagued with gout, eye pain, dizziness, stomach distress, amongst other things.
  • He drank a lot of tea with opium which he became addicted to. He would later publish a study of his illness.
  • Haller wrote three fiction philosophical romances – 1771 Usong, 1773 Alfred, 1774 Fabius und Cato.

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