HALLER, ALBRECHT VON

älˈbrĕcht fən häˈlər, 1708–77, Swiss scientist and writer. He had already won distinction as botanist and poet when he was appointed (1736) professor of anatomy, medicine, and botany at the Univ. of Göttingen. There he carried on the research in experimental physiology for which he is especially famed and on which he based his theory of the irritability (known today as contractility) of muscle tissue, set forth in A Dissertation on the Sensible and Irritable Parts of Animals (1732, tr. 1936). He returned (1753) to his native Bern, where he continued his research and took part in public affairs. Among his voluminous writings are Elementa physiologiae corporis humani (8 vol., 1757–66); noted bibliographies in anatomy, surgery, botany, and medicine; and a volume of poems, Versuch schweizerischer Gedichte (1732).

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Irritating Experiments: Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90
Book by Hubert Steinke; Rodopi, 2005
Subjects: Haller, Albrecht Von--1708-1777, Irritability, Physiology--History--18th Century, Senses And Sensation
95. A. von Haller, Opuscula sua Anatomica (G6ttingen: Vandenhoeck...99. Eg. of. Boissier de Sauvages, Von der Reitzbarkeit der Theile des Menschlichen...1-4. 102. Eg. Abhandlung des Herrn von Haller von den Empfindlichen und Reizbaren...
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Albrecht Durer A Guide to Research
Book by Jane Campbell Hutchison; Garland, 2000
Subjects: Educational Change--Developing Countries, Educational Innovations--Developing Countries, Politics And Education--Developing Countries
...Ivins had thought. 518. . Albrecht Durer. Das Fruhwerk bis 1500...the two Lamentations, the Haller Madonna, and the early portraits...Munich gallery, Christian von Mannlich. On this forgery see also Georg Caspar Nagler, Albrecht Durer und seine Kunst, Munich...
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Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939
Book by John S. Haller Jr.; Southern Illinois University Press, 1994
Subjects: Medicine, Eclectic--United States--History
...Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1830. Haller Albrecht von. A Dissertation on the Sensible and Irritable Parts of Animals . London: J. Nourse, 1755. Haller John S., Jr. American Medicine in Transition, 1840...
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Doctor's Orders: Goethe and Enlightenment Thought
Book by Robert D. Tobin; Bucknell University Press, 2001
Subjects: Enlightenment--Germany, Germany--Intellectual Life--18th Century, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von--1749-1832--Knowledge--Medicine, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von--1749-1832--Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Literature And Medicine--Germany--History--18th Century, Medicine In Literature, Medicine--Germany--History--18th Century
...American ed. New York, 1860. Haller, Albrecht. Von den empfindlichen und reizbaren...mit der biirgerlichen Konzeption von Individualitdt. Europaische Hochschulschriften...und Geschichte, edited by Benno von Wiese, 132-210. Diisseldorf...
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Outing Goethe & His Age
Book by Alice A. Kuzniar; Stanford University Press, 1996
Subjects: German Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von--1749-1832--Criticism And Interpretation, Homosexuality In Literature
...Barbara. Unter falschem Namen. Von der schwierigen Autorschaft der Frauen . Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1991. Haller Albrecht von. Primae lineae physiologiae in usum...Eine Spiegelung der Dissoziation von Erwerbs- und Familienleben". In...
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journal articles on: Haller Albrecht Von  - 27 results

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Hallers Netz. ein Europäischer Gelehrtenbriefwechsel Zur Zeit der Aufklärung
Journal article by Ulrich Johannes Schneider; Medical History, Vol. 52, 2008
...Lienhard (eds), Hallers Netz. Ein europaischer...Swiss super-scholar Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) exchanged...know so much about Haller is due to the work...vols. 1, 3-5), Hallers Paris diary (vol...p. 49). Within Hallers net there were 286...imminent penury with Haller. Some fellow doctors...
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Romanticism and the Sciences of Perversion
Journal article by Richard C. Sha; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 36, 2005
Subjects: Erotic literature--Analysis, Romanticism--Portrayals, Sex (Psychology)--History, Sex (Psychology)--Portrayals, Sexuality--History, Sexuality--Portrayals
...function in the body. If the great physiologist Albrecht von Hallers 1751 insistence that the penis and breast nipple...The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. 2002; Haller, Albrecht von. Dissertation on the Sensible and Irritable Parts...
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Writing in the Realm of the Senses. Introduction
Journal article by Rey Chow; Differences, Vol. 11, 1999
Subjects: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Women, Women--United States
...59-70. Goncourt, Edmund and Jules. LArt du dix-huitieme siecle . 3 vols. Paris: Flammarion, 1906 . Haller, Albrecht von. Elementa physiologiaeae corporis humani . 2nd ed. 8 vols. Lausanne: Marci-Michael Bousquet, 1757-58...
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Wet-Nursing, Onanism, and the Breast in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Journal article by Simon Richter; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 7, 1996
Subjects: Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...sketches out the plan for a psychology based on Albrecht von Hallers physiology, an undertaking that would almost certainly have irked the latter. 28 In 1752, as Albrecht von Haller unveils the results of his experi mentation in A...
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Usefulness and Limitations of Polysystem Theory in Explaining the Assimilation of English Literary Models in German Literature in the Eighteenth Century
Journal article by Helen Baumer; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2002
Subjects: English literature, European history, Even-Zohar, Itamar, German literature, Philosophers, Theory
...familiar from Opitzs Buch von der Deutschen Poeteny...reception to Swiss poems by Albrecht von Haller, which Bodmer...poets began emulating Haller, Gottsched moved onto...publishing parodies of Hallers poetry. The literary...Critiscbe Abbandlungen von dem Wunderbaren in der...
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magazine articles on: Haller Albrecht Von  - 1 result

 
 
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Thank You
Magazine article; Commonweal, Vol. 131, February 13, 2004
...PA Anonymous, VT Anthony amp; Julia Albrecht, MD Stephen Anderson, MD, IN Anthony...J. Vilardi, NY Cecilia amp; Hermann Von Bertrab, TX Richard M. Voripaieff...Yates amp; Abigail Hafner, MI William Haller, PA John J. Hardiman, NY Rita K. Hessley...


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encyclopedia articles on: Haller Albrecht Von  - 2 results

 
 
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Haller, Albrecht Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HALLER, ALBRECHT VON al brecht f n ha l r, 1708 77, Swiss scientist and writer. He had already won distinction as botanist and poet when he was appointed...
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Swiss Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Spyri, have become worldwide classics. In the 18th cent. major Swiss authors included the poet and scientist Albrecht von Haller, and the critics Johann Bodmer and Johann Breitinger. Leading figures of the 19th cent. were the novelist C...


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