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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Emil Theodor Kocher, Karl Schenk, Adolf Wolfli, Albrecht von Haller, Hermann Kutter, Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, Petar Majstorovic, Cristina Perincioli, Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, Rudolph Stauffer, Gottfried Mind, Gwendolyn Masin, Karl Ludwig von Haller, Balthasar Burkhard, Michel Kratochvil, Ferdinand Hodler, Liselotte Pulver, Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg, Harald Szeemann, Yang Lian, Hans Albert Einstein, Teddy Stauffer, John E. Smith, Claudia Christen, Gottfried von Einem, Bernhard Schaub, Philipp Albert Stapfer, Albert Lindegger, Arnold Klebs, Marc Hodler, Aleksandar Mitreski, Matthias Zschokke, Arnold Kach, Franz Joseph Untersee, Niklaus Manuel, Oscar Collodo, Hans Urwyler, Yangzom Brauen, Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Charles Victor de Bonstetten, Tanja Frieden, Paul Laciga, List of mayors of Bern, Kaspar Brunner, Adrian von Bubenberg, Volkmar Andreae, Ferhat Cokmu, Peter Grutter, Christian Kauter, Renee Weibel, Ulrich Boner, Gunvor Guggisberg, Conrad Justinger, Selma Urfer, Hermann Sahli, Roland Zoss, Paul Nizon, Linda Geiser, Raphael Urweider, Carl Adolf Otth, Otto Ackermann, Johann David Wyss, Walter Breisky, Peter von Gunten, Johann Rudolf Wyss, Friedrich Traffelet, Viktor Surbek, Kurt Marti, Francois Klaus, Heinz von Allmen, Albrecht von Nurnberg, Walther Aeschbacher, Walter Wegmuller, Niklaus Dachselhofer. Excerpt: Albrecht von Haller (October 16, 1708 - December 12, 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet. He was born of an old Swiss family at Bern. Prevented by long-continued ill-health from taking part in boyish sports, he had the more opportunity for the development of his precocious mind. At the age of four, it is said, he used to read and expound the Bible to his father's servants; before he was ten he had sketched a Chaldee grammar, prepared a Greek and a Hebrew vocabulary, comp...
