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Albrecht von Haller

1708 - 1777

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Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 1708 – 12 December 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albrecht von Haller has received more than 124,908 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Albrecht von Haller is the 128th most popular physician (down from 122nd in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Physician.

Albrecht von Haller is most famous for his work on the structure of the human heart.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Albrecht von Haller ranks 128 out of 502. Before him are Virginia Apgar, Albert Sabin, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Johannes Peter Müller, Niels Kaj Jerne, and Santorio Santorio. After him are Joseph Murray, Carl Wernicke, Francysk Skaryna, Frederick Griffith, Charles Brenton Huggins, and Giovanni Antonio Scopoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1708, Albrecht von Haller ranks 3. Before him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia. After him are Pompeo Batoni, 7th Dalai Lama, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Antiochus Kantemir, Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Egidio Duni, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Olof von Dalin, and Georg Dionysius Ehret. Among people deceased in 1777, Albrecht von Haller ranks 4. Before him are Johann Heinrich Lambert, Joseph I of Portugal, and Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria. After him are Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Johann Andreas Segner, Charles de Brosses, Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Maxim Berezovsky, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Albrecht von Haller ranks 91 out of 876. Before him are Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), Brother Roger (1915), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), and Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270). After him are Alfred Cortot (1877), Jakob Steiner (1796), Bernardino Luini (1475), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Gianni Infantino (1970), and Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Albrecht von Haller ranks 8. Before him are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), and Alexandre Yersin (1863). After him are Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Adolf Meyer (1866), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), and Thomas Erastus (1524).

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