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Father of physiology
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Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet.

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Victor Albrecht von Haller was an 18th century scientist who did extensive work in the life sciences, including anatomy and physiology, botany, and developmental biology. His embryological work consisted of experiments in understanding the process of generation, and led him to adopt the model of preformationism called ovism (the idea that the new individual exists within the maternal egg prior to conception). Haller was born in Bern, Switzerland, on 16 October, 1708. His mother was Anna Maria Engel, and his father was Niklaus Emanuel Haller. The Hallers were an old family in Bern, and Haller spent the majority of his life there. During his life, Haller made many important contributions to medicine, botany, anatomy, and physiology. Haller became one of the most outspoken supporters of preformationism, and the long debate between Haller and Caspar Friedrich Wolff, who supported the competing theory of epigenesis in which form emerges gradually, is a hallmark of this time period in developmental biology. Haller also formulated an accurate model of the rate of fetal growth d

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[Albrecht von Haller: an encyclopaedic cosmopolite in the history of Swiss medicine]

Albrecht von Haller was born in Bern on October 16, 1708 and studied medicine in Tubingen and Leiden. From the middles thirties on, and for seventeen years, he taught botany, anatomy and surgery at the University of Gottingen, where he founded the botanical garden, the institute of anatomy and the Royal Society of Science. His research included the study of Swiss flora, experimentation in human physiology and the investigation of vascular anatomy. One of his main scientific interests was how the human body functions, and he believed that it worked as an active organism characterized by its capacity for reaction to stimuli and impulses. In his work Icones anatomicae (1743-1756), von Haller minutely described the human arterial circulation. This scientist also investigated the properties of the nervous and muscular systems, in particular in terms of sensibility and irritability, and the development of embryos. Albrecht von Haller died in Bern on December 12, 1777.

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Victor Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller was one of the intellectual giants of the eighteenth century, maybe the latest of the universally learned men of all times. His accomplishments in medicine, surgery, anatomy, physiology, botany, literature, scientific bibliography, and public service were simply enormous, and he achieved distinction in all of them - as well as in poetry. He is considered the father of scientific physiology.

Any one of his major works, or his exhaustive bibliographies in twenty volumes, would have been enough to occupy the lifetime of a lesser man, but Haller carried on a vast correspondence with hundreds of scientists, wrote thousands of reports, composed poetry which was a landmark in the development of German literature, wrote on the history of medicine, and was active in public affairs. It is said of him that he wrote sitting and standing, while riding and walking, as well as at tea with the ladies and during the meetings of the Council of Bern - the Berner Rat.

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