Haller, Albert von, a celebrated anatomist, physiologist, botanist, physician, and poet, born at Bern; professor of Medicine at Göttingen; author of works in all these departments; took a keen interest in all the movements and questions of the day, literary and political, as well as scientific; was a voluminous author and writer (1708‒1777).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hallel * Halley, Edmund