Haller, Albrecht von

1708–1777 Swiss physiologist, anatomist and writer who developed the principle of irritability.

Keywords: anatomy; physiology; botany; irritability; embryology

 Further Reading
    book Haller A von (1743–1756) Icones Anatomicae quibus Praecipuae Aliquae Partes Corporis Humani Delineatae Proponumtur et Arteriarum Potissimum Historia Continetur. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck.
    book Haller A von (1747) Primae Linae Physiologiae. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck.
    book Haller A von (1751) Réflexions sur le Systéme de la Génération de M. de Buffon. Geneva, Switzerland: Barillot.
    book Haller A von (1757–1766) Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani. Lausanne, Switzerland: Bousquet.
    book Sonntag O (ed.) (1983) The Correspondence between Albrecht von Haller and Charles Bonnet. Bern, Switzerland: Hans Huber.
    book Sonntag O (ed.) (1999) John Pringle's Correspondence with Albrecht von Haller. Basel, Switzerland: Schwabe.
    book Cherni A (1998) Epistémologie de la Transparence: Sur l'Embryologie de A. von Haller. Paris: Vrin.
    book Cimino G and Duchesneau F (eds) (1997) Vitalisms from Haller to the Cell Theory. Florence, Italy: Olschki.
    book Roe SA (1981) Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller–Wolff Debate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    book Roe SA (ed.) (1981) The Natural Philosophy of Albrecht von Haller. New York: Arno.
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Lynn, Michael R(Apr 2001) Haller, Albrecht von. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002941]