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1731, 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 

 1 738 he again married, uniting himself to Miss E. 

 Buiher, the daughter of M. Buiher, a counsellor 

 of state and banneret of Berne, but 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, 

 with 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 unheeded by 

 the vulgar eye, recalled to his mind the Deity : 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 

 published several treatises in its defence. That one 



