The natural arrangement and relations of the family of flycatchers, or muscicapidae / Illustrated by thirty-three coloured plates, with portrait and memoir of Baron Haller.

  • William Swainson
Date:
1838
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Credit: The natural arrangement and relations of the family of flycatchers, or muscicapidae / Illustrated by thirty-three coloured plates, with portrait and memoir of Baron Haller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J731, to Miss Marianne Wys, the daughter of the Seigneur of Mathod; of whom he was deprived in 1736, some months after his arrival in Gottingen. It is this lady who is so much celebrated in his poems under the names of Doris and Marianne. The love he felt for her was most ardent; and nothing can be more touching than his ode upon her death. In 1738 he again married, uniting himself to Miss E. Buiher, the daughter of M. Buiher, a counsellor of state and banneret of Berne, hut she survived their union but a very short time. Finally, in ] 741 he married Miss Teichmeyer, the daughter of a physician, who was privy counsellor and professor of medicine at Jena. He was also the father of a numerous family, leaving behind him eleven children and twenty grandchildren, to whom he consigned. V ith their patrimony, his fair name and good ex- ample. Baron Haller was a Protestant, and very rigor- ously discharged the duties and obligations of his religion. He was decidedly pious, and like the great Robert Boyle, had a supreme veneration for the name of God. “ A thousand incidents,” says one of his panegyrists, “ which passed imheeded by the vulgar eye, recalled to his mind the JDeiti/: and when he recollected or heard that Great Name, he gave vent, in whatever company or circumstances he happened to be placed, to some pious ejaculation, with his eyes and hands uplifted towards heaven.” He was also the champion of Protestantism, and pubhshed several treatises in its defence. That one