Quotes:Haller, Albrecht von

Zirkoff, Boris

Haller, Albrecht von. Swiss anatomist and physiologist, b. at Berne, Oct. 16, 1708; d. Dec. 17, 1777. Very precocious as a child, studied medicine at Tübingen under Camerarius, and at Leyden under Boerhaave and Albinus, graduating in 1727. Went to Basle, 651 1728, where he started a collection of plants which became the basis of his great work on Swiss flora. Began practicing medicine at Berne, 1730; the fame of his research work led George II to offer him in 1736 the chair of medicine, anatomy, surgery and botany in the newly-founded university of Göttingen, a chair he held for 17 years. He also conducted the monthly Göttingische gelehrte Anzeiger to which he is said to have contributed several thousand articles on almost every branch of knowledge. He resigned in 1753 and went back to Berne where he engaged in various municipal and State duties, and the preparation of his Bibliotheca medica and his famed Elementa physiologiae corporis humani (1757-60). He was also the author of some philosophical fiction expounding his views on government, and of numerous poems. A prolific writer on medical lines, his contribution to the science of medicine was very great.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, pp. 650-651