MEMOIR OF BARON HALLER. 57 
1 731 , to Miss Marianne Wys, the daughter of the 
Seigneur of Mathod ; of whom he was deprived in 
1 736, 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 
he more touching than his ode upon her death. In 
1 738 he again married, uniting himself to Miss E. 
Buiher, the daughter of M. Buihcr, a counsellor 
of state and banneret of Berne, but she survived 
their union but a very short time. Finally, in 
1741 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 wus 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 
